The ''seigo kosaku'' (國民政府の清鄉工作) program of pacification was the
Japan
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ese security plan to maintain peace and order in occupied territories in
Chinese Mainland
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during wartime.
[Saburō Hayashi -Kōgun: the Japanese Army in the Pacific War - Page 48 1959 "... a thorough and accelerated "clean-up" campaign should be executed. That is, the seigo kosaku program of pacification, whereby the authorities would establish a maximum of "model villages" in which"] Similar policies were implemented also in
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially known as the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of Great Manchuria thereafter, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostens ...
and
Mengjiang
Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being under the nominal sovereignty ...
, as well as by the Chinese Reformed Government. It was put into practice in occupied territories in
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
province when the
Chiang Kai-shek regime was defeated and a pro-Japanese native government was installed.
References
Second Sino-Japanese War
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