This week: Taiwan was the first overseas territory annexed by Japan with a large existing population. So how did the government’s policies on religion–and especially Shinto–help shape the nature of Japanese colonial rule there? And how did those policies evolve as Taiwan’s own place in the empire changed?
Sources
Shimizu, Karli. Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire
Nakajima, Michio. “Shinto Dieties that Crossed the Sea: Japan’s ‘Overseas’ Shrines’, 1868 to 1945.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37, No 1 (2010)
A Taipei Times article on the Xilai Temple Incident and its role in Taiwanese history.
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