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35,000 Japanese citizens were arrested, imprisoned and murdered
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I clarify this statement by saying I meant it as a whole. 35,000 is a rough number published by Japan's Leftist Socialist Party in 1995. Of this number they claim 2,130 people were executed by the Kempitai. Obviously figures are different depending on what source you dig up.
In the book written by Raymond Lamont Brown the Kempitai rounded up 59,000 Japanese between 1933 and 1936 sending 2,400 to prison and executing 1,300. Amoung those were communists, journalists, Christians and teachers. They were more brutal outside Japan than in but they were instrumental in supressing public dissent in a government that dragged the whole country to hell with it.