Word: kempei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
...Kempei. A grinning, politely deferential squad of bespectacled officers arrived at the power plant. "Everybody was supposed to go on doing his duty, and acts of sabotage would be punished by death. Then they said that whoever would not agree with this should please step forward. They had six Jap soldiers lined up with drawn swords. Nobody moved...
They slept on the stone floor, ate rice and stringy meat, had to bow to Jap soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast...
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