March 30

Nanjing (Nanking), China • March 30, 1940 By 1940 Japan had close to a decade’s worth of expe­ri­ence in admin­is­tering con­quered Chi­nese terri­tory, having installed a pup­pet govern­ment in 1932 in Man­churia, which the Japa­nese called Man­chu­kuo. On this date, March 30, 1940, in Nan­jing (Nan­king), China, the Japa­nese installed Wang Jingwei (Ching-wei) as head of…

Nanjing (Nanking), China · March 30, 1940 By 1940 Japan had close to a decade’s worth of expe­ri­ence in admin­is­tering con­quered Chi­nese terri­tory, having in­stalled a pup­pet govern­ment in 1932 in Man­churia, which the Japa­nese called Man­chu­kuo. On this date in 1940 in Nan­jing (Nan­king), China, the Japa­nese in­stalled Wang Jingwei (Ching-wei) as head of…