North China Transportation Company
The North China Transportation Company was a transportation company in the territory of the collaborationist Provisional Government of the Republic of China during the Japanese occupation.
A bus of the North China Transportation Company (TaHa(タハ)54, Dodge-built bus)
A Ya1 class boxcar of the North China Transportation Company
Observation car formerly used on the Tairiku Express, now preserved at the Beijing Railway Museum.
Image: Mogul 2 6 0 locomotive at Jingzhang railway
Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1937–1940)
The Provisional Government of the Republic of China was a Chinese puppet state of the Empire of Japan that existed from 1937 to 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It had been formed largely on the initiative of Imperial Japanese Army commanders in north China, before securing approval from Japanese government authorities in Tokyo. Thus the Provisional Government had nominal authority in Japanese occupied zones in north China, while to the south the Central China Expeditionary Army established the Reformed Government of the Republic of China in 1938, which had authority in the Yangtze River area. Both essentially served as a local organ of the Japanese military authorities, due to the presence and extensive powers of Japanese advisors within the Provisional Government over native Chinese bureaucrats, and because it never made any attempt to secure international recognition, even from Japan.
The sign of the government unveiled in Zhongnanhai in Beijing on December 14, 1937
Signs on Tiananmen Gate hailing the founding of the government in 1937
Image: Wang Kemin
Image: Tang Erhe