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Events on Saturday 30 March 1940 1
1940Wang Jingwei regime establishedJapan installs a collaborationist government in NanjingOn 30 March Wang Jingwei, a former Kuomintang leader, became head of a Japanese-backed Reorganized National Government of China in Nanjing. It claimed to be the legitimate government of China but had little independence. It collapsed with Japan's defeat in 1945.