Tokubetsu Keisatsutai

Template:Short description The was the Imperial Japanese Navy's military police, equivalent to the Imperial Japanese Army's Kempeitai.

The original Tokkeitai was known as the General Affairs Section and concerned itself with military police and personnel work within the Navy: personnel, discipline and records. It took a more active role, partly to keep the Kempeitai and the Army from meddling in Navy affairs.

It was especially active in the areas of the South Pacific and the Naval Control Area and was as pervasive as the Kempeitai. It had the same commissar roles in relation to exterior enemies or suspicious persons, and it watched inside units for possible defectors or traitors under the security doctrine of Kikosaku.

Attached to navy units, they served as Colonial police in some occupied Pacific areas. Later accusations of war crimes were made against them in that role for such acts as coercion of comfort women from Indonesia, Indochina and China into sexual slavery. Template:Wikisource/outer core

In addition to its military police responsibilities, it was the operative branch of the Secret Service Branch of the Imperial Japanese Navy (, which was responsible for counterintelligence, executive protection, force protection, recovering and analyzing information for the execution of undercover operations, and supporting ground combat operations (if necessary). Its members also provided local security near naval bases. In the final weeks of the Pacific War, it was among the security units prepared for combat against the proposed Allied invaded Mainland Japan in Operation Downfall.