Kempeitai/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Kempeitai.

Originally the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army, with both conventional and counterintelligence duty, reporting to the Army Minister (Japan) rather than to the Army General Staff, a group that expanded its role into militarized politics, sometimes without authorization