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Wang Jingwei Meets Hideki Tojo, December 1942

December 1942

A December 1942 photograph showing Chinese collaborationist leader Wang Jingwei meeting Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in Tokyo.

Shows Tojo, as Japan's Prime Minister, meeting the collaborationist Chinese leader Wang Jingwei.

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Black-and-white photo of six men in an outdoor courtyard by a brick building. On the left, a smiling older man in a dark uniform; next, a bald man seen from behind in a military tunic; a man in a military-style tunic with a medal gestures and smiles; two men in dark formal suits and ties laugh; a smiling man in a dark suit stands at the far right.
Unknown photographer, Wang Jingwei meets Hideki Tojo, December 1942.

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What it is

A black-and-white photograph showing six men in an outdoor courtyard in Tokyo in December 1942. It depicts Wang Jingwei meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, taken when Wang traveled to Tokyo to attend the anniversary of the start of the Greater East Asia War. The photographer is unknown.

Why it matters

Wang Jingwei led a separate Chinese government set up in 1938 that cooperated with Japan, after breaking from the Kuomintang. This photograph documents a meeting between Wang and Tojo, showing the alliance between Japan's wartime leadership and the collaborationist government it supported in China.

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  • What do the smiles and relaxed poses of the men suggest about how this meeting was meant to appear?
  • Why might this photograph have been taken and kept as a historical record?
  • What does the image leave out about the political situation in China at the time, including opposition to Wang's government?

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