Kenji Doihara
After the death of his father, Yuan lived reclusively in the German concession in Tianjin. In 1935, he moved to Baochao Lane (宝钞胡同) in Beijing. In 1937, he again relocated to Qinghuaxuan Villa in the Summer Palace. During the Sino-Japanese War, after the fall of northern china, Japanese army officer Kenji Doihara asked Yuan to join the Japanese puppet regimes, hoping to use his identity to exert some influence to the old Beiyang Ministry. Yuan refused to cooperate with the Imperial Japanese Army, and did not wish to be seen as a traitor and his life became impoverished.