Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to Pearl Hill Jail.

Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are escorted through the streets of Singapore with a guard of Indian troops; rickshaws pass. Higher angle looking down on the troops. A Japanese warrant officer who fell out on the march walks heavily along with a crowd of civilians (including young children) watching him. Japanese troops marching on a rural road, some of them still armed.

Notes

With the exception of the shot descriptions, the dopesheet is identical to that of JFU 371.

The dopesheet lists and names a lieutenant colonel, a major, three captains, a lieutenant, five sublieutenants and nine warrant officers as having taken part in this march. The dopesheet also notes, with evident satisfaction, the heat of the day, the Japanese troops' poor physical condition ('after months of easy living in soft administrative jobs'), the ease with which their British and Indian escorts completed the march, and the disdainful contempt shown to the Japanese by the locals. These troops were to be held pending war crimes investigations.

The Kempeitai were an Imperial Japanese Army gendarmerie with responsibilities for military policing, internal security and (often political) justice. During the war they quickly developed a reputation for brutality and were regarded by the Allies in much the same vein as the Nazis' Gestapo secret police.

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