Word: kempeitai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efforts to set up a harmonious new order in Asia. Indigenous leaders once sympathetic to Tokyo's presence accused the Japanese of arrogance. Civilians who did not bow to Japanese soldiers or who somehow displeased them were automatically slapped. Atrocities also contributed to Japanese unpopularity. The occupation police, the Kempeitai, won a reputation for torture. Occupation forces performed medical experiments on prisoners of war--or used them for target practice. Anti-Japanese guerrilla movements proliferated...
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