page_title: Kenpeitai
hierarchical_section_title: Kenpeitai
caption_attribution_description: English: Kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army's Military policeman)NCOs日本語: 大日本帝国陸軍の憲兵下士官。鹿児島地方大演習に派遣された一隊。
context_page_description: The Kenpeitai was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945. It was both a conventional military police and a secret police force. In Japanese-occupied territories, the kenpeitai also arrested or killed those who were suspected of being anti-Japanese. While it was institutionally part of the army, the Kenpeitai also discharged the functions of the military police for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the direction of the Admiralty Minister, those of the executive police under the direction of the Home Minister and those of the judicial police under the direction of the Justice Minister. A member of the corps was called a kenpei.
context_section_description: The Kenpeitai (憲（けん）兵（ぺい）隊（たい）, /kɛnpeɪˈtaɪ/) was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945. It was both a conventional military police and a secret police force. In Japanese-occupied territories, the kenpeitai also arrested or killed those who were suspected of being anti-Japanese. While it was institutionally part of the army, the Kenpeitai also discharged the functions of the military police for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the direction of the Admiralty Minister (although the IJN had its own much smaller Tokkeitai), those of the executive police under the direction of the Home Minister and those of the judicial police under the direction of the Justice Minister. A member of the corps was called a kenpei (憲（けん）兵（ぺい）).
caption: Kenpei officers aboard a train in 1935
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