In March 1940, Wang Ching-wei established the Nanjing Nationalist government under the aegis of Japan, appropriating the four symbols of the Chongqing Nationalist government, namely, the Three Principles of the People, the name of the regime, the KMT party and the national flag (blue sky on a red background with a white sun in the upper left corner). The regime's pro-Japanese policy was a natural outgrowth of their political relationship with the Japanese government and this necessitated utilization of some different political symbols. By using the political symbols of the Chongqing Nationalist government, the Wang Ching-wei regime sought to not only supplant their legitimacy, in line with Chou Fu-hai's four conditions of April 1939, but also to improve their traitorous image and become the only focus of Japanese political negotiations. Although Japan supported the Wang Ching-wei regime, it viewed their use of the same political symbols as the Chongqing Nationalist government (namely the Three Principles of the People, the KMT, the national flag, and regime name) differently. This paper takes these four political symbols as its core analysis, examining negotiations between the Wang Ching-wei regime and the Japanese government in May 1939, as well as the differences in political symbols of the Wang Ching-wei and Chongqing regimes.