In world war 2 Japan what (if anything?) would happen to a normal person if they tried to publicly speak out agienst the government's foreign policy, in someway?

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MisterFiftyFifty

The same thing that would happen to you in Nazi Germany, essentially. You would be arrested, possibly tortured/sent to a camp, and, if serious enough of an offense, executed. The Japanese military (which was the controlling force in Japan at the time when you exclude the emperor) had a special unit set up called the Kempeitai to deal with and quash internal rebellion, for lack of a better term. Their German equivalent was the notorious Gestapo.