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Keibōdan
The was an organization formed in 1939 immediately prior to World War II as ordered by the (announced January 25 and implemented April 1) in order to protect the people from air raids and fires.警防団令
[''Keibōdan'' Order] (in Japanese) 24 January 1939
They were tasked with acting as a support organization for the police and fire brigade.大日本警防 [The Defense of Great Japan] (in Japanese), April 1940 There was less reason to maintain the ''Keibōdan'' after Japan lost the war, resulting in it being abolished and combined into the fire brigade in 1947.


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Prior to the establishment of the ''Keibōdan'', a fire fighting force known as existed, predating the current , which had the responsibility of contro ...
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Collaboration With Imperial Japan
Before and during World War II, the Empire of Japan created a number of List of World War II puppet states, puppet states that played a noticeable role in the war by collaborating with Imperial Japan. With promises of "Asia for the Asiatics" cooperating in a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan also sponsored or collaborated with parts of nationalist movements in several Asian countries colonised by European empires, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The Japanese recruited volunteers from several occupied regions and also from among Allied prisoners-of-war. Some of the leaders in various Asian and Pacific territories cooperated with Japan as they wanted to gain independence from the European colonial overlords, as seen in Burma and Indonesia. Some other collaborators were already in power of various independent or semi-independent entities, such as Plaek Phibunsongkhram's regime in Thailand, which desired to become a major player in Asian politics but were restrai ...
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