Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ching-chih Chen
• Mark R. Peattie
• Ramon H. Myers

Titel

Police and Community Control Systems in the Empire

Ist Teil von

• The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, 2020, p.213

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Meiji Japan the government had imposed its reforms and carried these out through a newly created police force. The Meiji police system, formed in 1874 and patterned after the European police system, was under the Ministry of Home Affairs. All prefectural governors, except in Tokyo, supervised their police. Each local police system was comprised of a police station, and its chief with police substations in towns and large rural communities. Each police substation had from two to eight police officers responsible for law and order. The Meiji police were expected to do more, however. They enforced the new government’s