After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese troops soon occupied the whole of northeastern China and helped found the puppet regime of the pseudoState of Manchu. In 1933, Japan quited from the United League, thoroughly giving up the socalled “coordinate diplomacy” and vigorously carried out a “mainland policy”. Then Japanese intellectuals automatically organized and established Zhaohe Seminar, an association of national policy study. The association gathered the “elite” of Japanese intellectual world and contributed its “intelligence” to the Ehome Cabinet and its formulation and adjustment of Japanese policies to China. After the Lougou Bridge Incident, Zhaohe Seminar brought forward synergism, attempting to substitute Chinese nationalism with it and change Chinese government’s antiJapanese policy to provide a theoretical basis for their Great East Asia New Order. Zhaohe Seminar’s synergism was introduced to fulfill Japan’s aim to monopolize East Asia and made no difference with the Japanese army’s bare invasion in China, which ended in ruins along with Japanese defeat.

Zhaohe Seminar; Ehome Cabinet; Great East Asia New Order; Japanese policy to China