Kempetai officers.
Secret police of the Imperial Japanese Army was reinforced by the National Populist government in early 1940s. Dreaded force would has right to arrest any civillian or army officer, torture to gain any credbile information and - in case of war - execute those who were deemed as treasonous. In occupied territory, Kempetai took part in various genocides to eradicate people deemed as unnecessary to the New Asian Order and even assisted Mad Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg in his infamous "campaigns". Since 1950s, their activities on the Home Islands has been overtaken by the Imperial Japanese State Security Commission and limited to the occupied territories.
Indochinese children trained by Imperial Japanese Army officers. (1944)
Japanese government authorized local IJA garrisons to train young generation of Indonesians, hoping to create a more loyal population of the puppet state.
Hideki Tojo in Manila (1942)
Shortly after fall of Manila, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo arrived in the city, to sign a peace treaty with Phillippines government. Second Republic was established as a puppet state of the Japanese Empire and quickly joined the New Asian Order. Following disastrous end of the Second Russo-Japanese War, democratic government fell and was replaced by the Imperial Way faction formed to achieve Showa Restoration through abolition of democracy, formation of fascist, militaristic state, modernization of military, state intervention in economy, collaboration with the largest Zaibatsu cartels and unification of all Japanese under One Party, One Prime Minister and One Emperor. With the help from Germans, Imperialists were able to fund their activities and lift Japan from post-war recession.