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The Kenpeitai (憲兵隊 Kenpeitai, "Military Police Corps") is the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, from 1881 to 1945. It also served as a secret police force.Uniformed personnel also wore a black chevron on their uniforms and a white armband on the left arm with the characters ken (憲, "law") and hei (兵, "soldier"), together read as kenpei or kempei, which translates to "military police".
