Kempeitai
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The Kempeitai was the official military police of the Imperial Japanese Army. The organization also shared civilian secret police and gendarmerie responsibilities that specialized in clandestine and c
Kenpei officers aboard a train in 1935
Kempei keisatsu gendarmes in Japanese-controlled Korea
Kempeitai personnel searching captured Chinese soldiers after the Fall of Nanking in 1937
Comfort women
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Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a tr
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…and occupied territories. It carried out torture, summary executions, and violent reprisals and massacres against civilians, as well as procuring comfort women and human test subjects for Unit 731. The Kempeitai was disbanded after the war, and many of its leaders were tried and convicted of war crimes. While…
Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944
A Japanese military comfort station in China, photographed on February 7, 1938
An ethnic Chinese comfort woman being interviewed by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force at Rangoon, August 8, 1945
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops