Kempeitai: Japan’s Dreaded Military Police

Budding/Sutton Publishing, UK, 2000 (fp 1998). Reprint, large 8vo in d/w, plates and maps, biblio, large glossary, index, pp182, **the Kempeitai were Japan’s secret military police and counter-espionage service. They were a grimly efficient corps, possessing wide powers which they were trained to employ ruthlessly. They were, in effect, low mongrels who murdered thousands, vg cond and difficult to find.