This week: now that Japan has conquered Taiwan, what are they actually going to do with it?
Sources
Sharpe, M.E. Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with East and West.
Rubinstein, Murray A. Taiwan: A New History.
Barclay, Paul D. Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945.
Tsurumi, E. Patricia. “Education and Assimilation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945.” Modern Asian Studies 13, No. 4
Ts’ai, Hui-yu Caroline. “The Hoko System in Taiwan, 1895-1945: Structure and Functions.” The Journal of the College of Liberal Arts of National Chung-Hsing University, Vol. 23.
Images
Kodama Gentaro, the military bureaucrat who was the first governor general with a tenure longer than a year or so.Sakuma Samata, like his predecessor Kodama, was a military man. Under his rule, uprisings against the government grew stronger in character — he was eventually recalled after suffering a wound during one of those uprisings.Lo Fu-hsing, the Hakka-Han-Dutch rebel who was executed by the Japanese in 1913, was honored by the Republic of China on Taiwan with a postage stamp.A memorial for the Tapani Incident in modern Tainan.Captured rebels in the wake of the Tapani Incident.Den Kenjiro, the first civilian governor-general of Taiwan, took office in 1919.A girl’s school in Taiwan. From their origins as relatively marginal parts of colonial policy, schools like this one would become increasingly central to the assimilation-oriented policies of the government-general.An aboriginal school under Japanese rule.
