Wang Jingwei (center, surrounded by Japanese officers) gives a speech. Picture taken before 1944.
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Wang Jingwei

When the war started in 1937, Japan quickly overran North China. Plans were made to create then an autonomous buffer zone between unoccupied China and Manchukuo in the form of a collaborationist regime. Wang Kemin accepted the post of the President of the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China", the capital being in Beijing. The fact that every step was closely monitored by Japanese Authorities discredited the Wang Kemin government in the eyes of the locals.

The Provisional Government of the Republic of China was merged into Wang Jingwei's Nanjing Nationalist Regime on 20 March 1940, but stayed practically independent under the name "North China Political Council", of which Wang Kemin was the chairman until the end of the war.

Wang Kemin became furthermore the Internal Affairs Minister of the Wang Jingwei Regime.

After the surrender of Japan, Wang Kemin was arrested by the Republic of China and tried for treason. He committed suicide before the conclusion of his trial on December 26, 1945.
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Wang Kemin

Prince Demchugdongrub (left in the picture) set up the  regime of Mengjiang, which collaborated with Japan to create a Pan-Mongolian state. Troops of Mengjiang fought with their Japanese allies in the beginning of the war, to enlarge the own territory, and later in 1945 when the Soviets destroyed the Kwantung Army.

The Mengjiang army was largely composed of irregulars and former bandits with low morale and bad equipment (in the beginning not even half of the men had rifles), and no tanks or planes were available. Some very few artillery pieces and anti-air guns were captured or given by the Japanese (and also then only Chinese artillery pieces).
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