enough for prime minister Georges Clemenceau to ask the Japanese for their help. The war situation in Europe so bad that in 1914 the French considered exchanging French Indochina with Japan for both financial and military support, but this idea was quickly abandoned. Clemenceau asked the Empire of Japan to aid them with the transportation of the travailleurs et tirailleurs indochinois to Europe and by sending its own forces to help fight in Europe. Clemenceau also wanted the Japanese help intervene in Siberia to fight the Bolshevik forces during the Russian civil war to prevent the loss of the many French-Russian loans, which were important for the French post-war economy. On the 10th day of the 11th month of the 2nd year of Khải Định's reign (1917) the Viện cơ mật reported on a Tokyo College of Law textbook offered by the Governor-General of French Indochina to the Nguyễn dynasty government, that was translated into Chinese. In 1918 the idea of selling French Indochina to Japan was raised again and like the first time that it was proposed it was abandoned again. Both during and after the war the economic relations between France and Japan strengthened as Japan became a creditor of France following the latter's financial difficulties Which came as a result of the war. Joint French-Japanese administration of Vietnam In June 1940, France fell to Nazi Germany which led to the creation of the puppet Vichy regime to which the government of French Indochina remained loyal, motivated in part by a desire not to antagonize Japan who by then occupied the Chinese territory directly bordering Indochina. French Indochina's new alignment with Axis nations could not fully prevent Japanese aggression, however, as Japan was willing to use military force against French Indochina in order to achieve its strategic goals in the region. On 22 September 1940, Japan invaded Vietnam in a limited conflict that secured privileges to station large numbers of troops in Tonkin as well as control over a number of key bases; French Indochina allowed Japan to station troops in the rest of Indochina and ceded further bases in July 1941 after which Japan also began constructing its own military bases to strike against the Allies in Southeast Asia. The Japanese occupation was a partial one in which French Indochina maintained control over its own military and most aspects of government and administration. Even so, when Japan