Those who have watched Chinese anti-Japanese dramas should be familiar with the Japanese military police. Because the special organization of the gendarmerie appears in almost all anti-Japanese dramas. In fact, this kind of arrangement does not respect history. Today we will tell you what the so-called Japanese gendarmerie does?
In fact, the Japanese gendarmerie can only be regarded as the local security maintenance force strictly speaking, not even the regular army, and it is not so effective. In the early days of its establishment, it was even just a patrol. As for the origin of the gendarmerie, it goes back to the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
The Meiji Restoration opened the door for Japan to learn from the West. Japan began to imitate the West in terms of life and political system, and even many of its military systems were copied from Western countries. Therefore, there was confusion in the military. The military police was established in 1881. The initial task was just to assist in rectifying military discipline. Later, based on changes in the situation, the functions of the gendarmerie gradually changed and began to assume police duties. Although
is working as a policeman, it is not a policeman. Therefore, the status of the gendarmerie is very embarrassing. Even the highest officer of the gendarmerie is just a small lieutenant general, and he is not taken seriously by the top Japanese. This situation continued until the Second World War before it changed.
During the war, due to the limitation of military strength, the maintenance of law and order was handed over to the gendarmerie, and the Japanese gendarmerie became famous. Because the gendarmerie is stationed in places, the local people have the most contact and are the most disgusted by the people. The people mentioned here do not only mean that the people of the aggressed country, even the nationals of Japan, hate the gendarmerie. The crimes committed by the gendarmerie in China can be said to be unknowing, and no one knows. Here, I will mainly talk about what the gendarmerie has done in Japan. During Hideki Tojo's tenure as Prime Minister of Japan, the military police system was implemented in the country. The military police conducted numerous crimes by searching for anti-war activists and looting people's supplies.
In the latter part of the war, the power of the gendarmerie developed to its peak. Therefore, when the emperor decided to surrender, the gendarmerie had the highest voice of opposition, but even so, they did not dare to violate the emperor's order. After the surrender, the Japanese military police did not disband until the U.S. Army landed in the Japanese military police, and served as an associate for the Americans for a while, and finally disbanded until the U.S. military believed that they had no use value anymore.
