<page_title> List of World War II puppet states </page_title> <section_title> Japan </section_title> <table> <cell> Japan wanted to make Wang Jingwei, the former leader of the Provisional Government of China, the leader of a new puppet government. <col_header> Notes </col_header> </cell> </table>
Wang served as the head of state for the Japanese puppet government before the end of World War II.