Ancient history

Kenpeitai/Kempeitai

The Kenpeitai, founded in 1881 during the Meiji era, is the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army.

History

It was founded in 1881 by a decree concerning the gendarmerie, taking the French gendarmerie as a model.

It served as a secret police to hunt down opponents of the regime; it was one of the most feared fonts in Japan. The Kenpeitai was led by General Hideki Tōjō during World War II, then abolished by the Japanese Constitution of 1947. The Kenpeitai was sometimes nicknamed "the Japanese Gestapo", as both committed war crimes and crimes against the humanity.

A member of this body was nicknamed a kenpei.

Some of her agents carried out summary executions, notably during the Amakasu incident of 1923.
she was very active in French Indochina between 1940 and 1945, where she convicted of war crimes and extortion against French soldiers and civilians after the coup de main of March 9, 1945 until the capitulation of Japan, some of these members subsequently fought in the ranks of the Viet Minh.

Creation 1881
Dissolution August 1945
Country Japan
Allegiance Empire of Japan
Branch Imperial Japanese Army
Type Gendarmerie
Staff 7,500
Part of Ministry of Interior in Japanese Islands
Ministry of War in Occupied Territories

Wars

First Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
Invasion of Manchuria
Second Sino-Japanese War
Participation in the World War
Commander Hideki Tōjō
Historical Commander Yasumasa Fukushima


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