Kempeitai

[reavengitair]

So many of the intelligence forces are easy to tag - LSF, BIS, etc. but there isn't really an abreviation to Kempeitai.

So I'll just ask.. is there any way to rename this to something else? Or do we have to come up with a creative way to shorten this...

[Marcus Lindberg]

Well Kempetai means 'Military Police', so you could go with [MP]

But then again [K] wouldn't be bad either.

[Darkavatar]

Try [Kenhei] , Kenhei| , or some other variant. The real Kempeitai had armbands with 憲 (Ken- meaning law) and 兵 (Hei - meaning solider).

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[reavengitair]

So if Kempeitai doesn't make sense, why is it called thus? I don't want to make a tag that doesn't make sense.

[Marcus Lindberg]

So if Kempeitai doesn't make sense, why is it called thus? I don't want to make a tag that doesn't make sense.

Perhaps because its the only one that makes sense?

I compare Kusari to Imperial Japan, back then, I think spying and what not perhaps, I'mm not sure, but just maybe, could've been considered dishonorable.

Perhaps the Kempetai is also not meant to be an intelligence department, but ratherwhat the name suggest, A Military Police.

Perhaps you could RP it that way, rather than something similar to the LSF.

[Janus]

The Kempeitai, when it existed, wasn't a military police force in the sense that an American or Brit would understand the term but rather a gendarmerie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie

Tokkeitai might actually be a better fit than Kempetai, as they were the equivalent branch of the Japanese Navy and possibly had a larger intelligence role than the Kempeitai.

As to an tag for Kempeitai, KP could work, as a member was called a Kempei.