Kempeitai

Of the different arms of the law a person could be seized by, the Kempeitai were the worst.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

As far as she could see, the “obvious criminals” of the Kempeitai had fled Batavia to escape the Allies, and most of the remaining Japanese they encountered were “simple soldiers and officers who had not taken any part in the atrocities.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

She included details of how he had secretly slipped back onto the island, sustained an injury in the process, but still managed to make his way to Central Java, where he landed a job as a driver for the Kempeitai.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

As far as she could see, the “obvious criminals” of the Kempeitai had fled Batavia to escape the Allies, and most of the remaining Japanese they encountered were “simple soldiers and officers who had not taken any part in the atrocities.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

If they left, they had to be escorted by the Kempeitai, “the dreaded Japanese Gestapo.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

If they left, they had to be escorted by the Kempeitai, “the dreaded Japanese Gestapo.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

She included details of how he had secretly slipped back onto the island, sustained an injury in the process, but still managed to make his way to Central Java, where he landed a job as a driver for the Kempeitai.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Though employed to broadcast pro-Japanese propaganda, Toguri's outspoken support of the Allies off-mic (while cleverly concealing it within her message and delivery on-air) resulted in numerous arguments, fisticuffs, and sometimes daily 3 am harassments thanks to the Kempeitai Thought Police.

Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006

During World War II, Japanese troops, especially the Kempeitai, used waterboarding as a method of torture.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Jury Convicts Padilla on All Counts: 2007

One of the Japanese he could not get out of his mind was a small, slight man who was the interpreter when Lomax was being interrogated endlessly, and tortured, by a brute who was a member of the Kempeitai, which was in effect the Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo.

Eric Lomax's "The Railway Man" And Today's America 2006