Tonarigumi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tonarigumi (隣組; Neighborhood Associations) were localised political and surveillance bodies in Japan. They were set up in 1940, during the premiership of Fumimaro Konoye (近衛 文麿). A network of informants was established in every building, on every street and on every block, linking with the Tokkō Police service. Basically they consisted of low-ranking Kōdōha (皇道派) party members, and other loyalist and patriotic citizens, in the metropolitan areas, suburbs and provincial towns.
Japan organized similar groups in its exterior provinces of Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and the Wang Jingwei Government, and later in occupied territories of Southeast Asian during wartime, with the same purposes.
Betweem your charges of Tonarigumi was charged in envoyed future comunitaire leaders between young to respective official young association with heavy supervision of Education Minister,as local adiminstration of civil defense,first aid,rationing official policies and realizing periodically some polls for government.
Their mission was to watch for possible infractions of national laws, and supposed political enemies. Later in the Pacific War they served as observers, of enemy planes over cities, suspicious boats on the coasts, or for any traitors acting with the enemy. In the final stages of war they supported national defense as a secondary militia, in the case of enemy land invasion in metropolitan areas.
other ideological task assigned was purified the moral life between common subjects,with objetive of renewed lifeforms for eliminated materialist and pervert western desires between people.
It is possible that some groups from these organizations took part in combat in Chōsen and Karafuto province, in the closing days of the Pacific War.
