Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu

Special Higher Police (特別高等警察, Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu^?), often shortened to Tokkō (特高, Tokkō^?), was a police force established in 1911 in Japan, specifically to investigate and control political groups and ideologies deemed to be a threat to public order. Its main function was as a civilian counterpart to the military's Kempeitai and Tokkeitai, and it can be considered roughly equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States in terms of combining both criminal investigation and counter-espionage functions. It has been less charitably compared to the Nazi Gestapo secret police. The Tokkō was also known as the Peace Police (治安警察, Chian Keisatsu^?) or more notoriously by the term Thought Police (思想警察, Shisō Keisatsu^?),

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