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[edit] Name of the article

This article has been renamed before. That the name should be spelled without a space seems to have been accepted since 2005. Tokeitai is not just a Japanese word; unfortunately, this organisation affected the lives of many people outside Japan. In the last six decades Tokeitai has become the common name to denote this organisation, not the correct romanization Tokkeitai, with double K. This can be verified on Google, but for instance also in the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Everywhere in Wikipedia it is referred to as Tokeitai.

It is a good thing that the correct romanization with double K is pointed out in the opening line. However, in line with Wikipedia guidelines the article should keep the name Tokeitai.

♥ Stuart LaJoie → talk2me 14:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements

This article has some potential, but I think it has been overlooked due to the focus paid to the Kempeitai and to a lesser extent the Tokko. I fixed the grammar on the third paragraph, added a literal Japanese translation of the name Tokkeitai, and a littler Japanese here and there, as well as another link or two in the main body. I also asked for more citations in the main body. Even though my field of expertise is Asian politics, I have to admit my knowledge of the Tokkeitai is limited, and I haven't seen much published on them. That could account for the dearth of information floating around in English. Thoughts? Another question, should a reference be added in the main line to the official full name of "Tokubetsu Keisatsu Tai/特別警察隊?"

I also agree on keeping the English name of the article "Tokeitai". Although following Japanese grammar rules of double repeating consonants when shortening long words would render "Tokubetsu Keisatsu Tai" into "Tokkeitai" as far as I can tell it is very widely known as "Tokeitai". It seems to be a historical anomaly. As long as Wikipedia redirects people who search for "Tokkeitai" to this article, (which it does) I do not see a problem with it (though given Wikipedia's terrible internal search engine...). Wtlegis (talk) 09:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)