The Tokkeitai (特警隊; short for 特別警察隊, Tokubetsu Keisatsutai; English: "Special Police Force", or Naval Secret Police) was the uniformed military police of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), equivalent to the Kempeitai of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The Tokkeitai also performed plainclothes and secret policing tasks as well as counterintelligence operations.
The Tokkeitai (特警隊; short for 特別警察隊, Tokubetsu Keisatsutai; English: "Special Police Force", or Naval Secret Police) was the uniformed military police of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), equivalent to the Kempeitai of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The Tokkeitai also performed plainclothes and secret policing tasks as well as counterintelligence operations.
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