Japan's Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police.

The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge sums of money from hapless citizens and businesses. They ran the Allied POW gulag system that tre...