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Word: kempeitai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of command shows how dizzily history's pendulum has swung back. The new air operations chief helped plan the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a former official of the Home Ministry which ran Japan's Gestapo-like KempeiTai (Thought Police). The secretary of the JCS was once secretary to Premier Hideki Tojo, hanged 5½ years ago for war crimes. Half of the new army officers and three-fourths of the naval officers fought against the U.S. in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Army, Navy & Air Power | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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