China Republic Chinese medal "Visit Japan Commemorative Medal" 1941
China Republic Chinese medal "Visit Japan Commemorative Medal" 1941
Made from pure Brass, real hard enamel in the middle!
Top Quality and Rare!
Diameter: ca.30.37mm / 1.1955 inches
Last 2 Photos show you the original medal for comparison and a Photo of Wang who is wearing the medal... not for sale...
In the midddle of the medal is an Emblem of the Republic of China surrounded by Plum blossom
Reverse:
“訪日紀念章”“中華民國國民政府主席”“中華民國三十年六月”
Translation: "Visit Japan Commemorative Medal", "Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China", "June of the Thirty Years (1941) of the Republic of China"
圓形，銅制鍍金，中間鑲嵌紅圈國徽圓盤，圓盤兩邊環繞梅花圖案，襟綬，綬帶紅、藍、白三色，徽章背面中間“訪日紀念章”，環繞文字“中華民國國民政府主席”和“中華民國三十年六月”兩行文字，中間用梅花圖案隔開。
The medal is Round, made of gold-plated copper, inlaid with a red circle national emblem disc in the middle, surrounded by plum blossom patterns on both sides of the disc, ribbon, red, blue and white ribbons, "Visit Japan Medal" in the middle of the back of the badge, surrounded by the words "Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China" " and "June of the Thirty Years of the Republic of China" are two lines of text, separated by a plum blossom pattern in the middle.
History of the original Medal
Commemorative medal of the first visit to Japan, 30th years of the Republic of China (1941) On June 13th, Wang Jingwei set off from Nanjing by plane, on June 14th, he changed to a ship and departed from Shanghai Port, and arrived in Tokyo, Japan on June 17th, Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro He led the crowd to greet him. On June 23, Wang Jingwei and Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro signed the "Joint Declaration", stating that the "common goal of both parties" is to "realize coexistence and co-prosperity in East Asia". On June 25, Wang Jingwei left Tokyo by train. Return home on the 26th. The Japan Visit Medal is awarded to Japanese and Nanjing government officials who participated in the visit to Japan and the reception.
The Wang Jingwei regime or the Wang Ching-wei regime is the common name of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國國民政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Guómín Zhèngfǔ), the government of the puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China called simply the Republic of China. This should not be confused with the contemporaneously existing National Government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek, which was fighting with the Allies of World War II against Japan during this period. The country was ruled as a dictatorship under Wang Jingwei, a very high-ranking former Kuomintang (KMT) official. The region that it would administer was initially seized by Japan throughout the late 1930s with the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Wang, a rival of Chiang Kai-shek and member of the pro-peace faction of the KMT, defected to the Japanese side and formed a collaborationist rebel government in occupied Nanking (Nanjing) (the traditional capital of China) in 1940. The new state claimed the entirety of China (outside the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo) during its existence, portraying itself as the legitimate inheritors of the Xinhai Revolution and Sun Yat-sen's legacy as opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's government in Chunking (Chongqing), but effectively only Japanese-occupied territory was under its direct control. Its international recognition was limited to other members of the Anti-Comintern Pact, of which it was a signatory. The Reorganized National Government existed until the end of World War II and the surrender of Japan in August 1945, at which point the regime was dissolved and many of its leading members were executed for treason.
The state was formed by combining the previous Reformed Government (1938–1940) and Provisional Government (1937–1940) of the Republic of China, puppet regimes which ruled the central and northern regions of China that were under Japanese control, respectively. Unlike Wang Jingwei's government, these regimes were not much more than arms of the Japanese military leadership and received no recognition even from Japan itself or its allies. However, after 1940 the former territory of the Provisional Government remained semi-autonomous from Nanjing's control, under the name "North China Political Council". The region of Mengjiang (puppet government in Inner Mongolia) was under Wang Jingwei's government only nominally. His regime was also hampered by the fact that the powers granted to it by the Japanese were extremely limited, and this was only partly changed with the signing of a new treaty in 1943 which gave it more sovereignty from Japanese control. The Japanese largely viewed it as not an end in itself but the means to an end, a bridge for negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek, which led them to often treat Wang with indifference.