Kempeitai
Military police of the Imperial Japanese Army
Summary
The Kempeitai was the official military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police and gendarmerie responsibilities that specialized in clandestine and covert operation, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, created an Imperial Japanese Army security network intelligence, human intelligence (HUMINT), interrogated suspects who might be Allied soldiers and spies or members of a resistance movement, maintained security of prisoner of war camps, military criminal investigation, provided security at important government and military locations at risk of being sabotaged within the Empire of Japan and its occupied territories, and raided to capture high-value targets.
Originally created by Merovingian
7/9/2004, 1:29:46 AM
Modified
5/8/2026, 1:32:38 PM
Recent revisions
Unnecessary comma
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"Army Ministry" is more intuitive in this context, when Kempeitai is the Army's MP Corps
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provided a source on how the Kempeitai discharged limited MP functions in the Navy, given that the two services hated each other w/ a passion
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[[Wikipedia:OABOT|Open access bot]]: doi updated in citation with #oabot.
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establish what HUMINT stood for at the beginning
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take advantage of the {{lit}} template, for the literal translation of Kempeitai
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