[Sangetsu]

The Kempetai where the "thought police", and they had the power of life or death over any citizen who they deemed to be "unpatriotic". They were also the chief inquisitors and torturers of the IJA, and many civilians and allied prisoners of war were "questioned" by them. Although the Japanese government has apologized many times for the atrocities committed in foreign countries during the war, they have spoken very little about the atrocities committed against their own people.