International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

In the case of not advocating "peace" by violent means, the best and necessary choice for the Japanese puppet regime to control and manage the social grassroots is to use the police system to achieve their goal of colonial rule. In January 1938, puppet Nanjing City Police Department was established. In August of the same year, it was renamed puppet Nanjing Police Department. After Wang Ching-wei puppet government was established, it was changed to puppet Capital Police Department. The military and police's reign of terror shrouded Nanjing in fog, "traitors even more terrible than the Japanese", the Japanese puppet government almost realized the grass-roots society impenetrable control. After occupying Nanjing, Japanese troops established colonial rule over the ruins of the city. Since The Japanese mainland was far away from Nanjing and there were not enough people to control the Chinese, the Japanese colonial rule had to be "governing China by Chinese", which simply meant that the Japanese authorities needed a tool to help them rule Nanjing. Therefore, on December 23, 1937, puppet Nanjing Autonomous Committee was established, but its existence lasted only four months. In March 1938, the puppet Reformist government of the Republic of China was established. In 1940, the Wang Ching-wei puppet government took over the administration of Nanjing instead of the puppet Reformist government.