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During this period the In all the schools the Japanese language was made the medium of instruction ; even the newspapers were published in Japanese. New York: Columbia University Press, Light, Richard, and Wataru Yasaki. Skip to content.

Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule Teacher Education in Taiwan. The transplantation of modern civil law in Korea was facilitated by Japanese colonial jurists who created a Korean customary law; this constructed customary law served as an intermediary regime between tradition and the demands of modern law.

The transformation of Korean law by the forces of Westernisation points to new interpretations of colonial history and presents an intriguing case for investigating the spread of law on a global level. In-depth discussions of French customary law and Japanese legal history also provide a solid conceptual framework suitable for comparing European and East Asian legal traditions.

Author : Horst H. From to Horst H. Geerken lived in the new-born Republic of Indonesia, at a time of upheaval after the end of almost years of colonial rule and exploitation by the Netherlands. In both his professional and private activities he constantly came across German, Japanese and Indonesian eyewitnesses who had lived through the Japanese occupation and the presence of the German navy in Indonesia.

The relations between the German Reich and what was then the Dutch East Indies were obviously closer and more varied than had been previously assumed. Hardly anyone was aware that Hitler was extremely interested in this distant archipelago and that thousands of German officers and seamen were in action in East and South-East Asia. Or that Hitler gave massive support to the independence movements in Indonesia and India? Many of the German naval personnel chose to make Indonesia their home after the war and joined the Indonesian freedom fighters.

The role played in this process by the Third Reich should not be underestimated. The collaboration between the Axis powers, especially that between German and Japan, with all its problems, is also investigated.

There was a lively exchange of new weapons technology. There was even the re-creation of a German Radar system in Japan under the management of a German engineer. Documents from the Third Reich's Foreign Ministry, published here for the first time, show how brutally and inhumanely the German men, women and children in the Dutch internment camps in the East Indies were treated by their captors.

These documents are supported by evidence from contemporary witnesses. The author has encapsulated his many years of research in the two volumes of Hitler's Asian Adventure. It is a fascinating documentation of the German Navy's involvement in a theatre of war that has until now been neglected by historians.

The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national identity.

Essays are grouped into four categories: rethinking colonialism and modernity; colonial policy and cultural change; visual culture and literary expressions; and from colonial rule to postcolonial independence.

Their unique analysis considers all elements of the Taiwanese colonial experience, concentrating on land surveys and the census; transcolonial coordination; the education and recruitment of the cultural elite; the evolution of print culture and national literature; the effects of subjugation, coercion, discrimination, and governmentality; and the root causes of the ethnic violence that dominated the postcolonial era.

The contributors encourage readers to rethink issues concerning history and ethnicity, cultural hegemony and resistance, tradition and modernity, and the romancing of racial identity. Their examination not only provides a singular understanding of Taiwan's colonial past, but also offers insight into Taiwan's relationship with China, Japan, and the United States today. Focusing on a crucial period in which the culture and language of Taiwan, China, and Japan became inextricably linked, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule effectively broadens the critique of colonialism and modernity in East Asia.

Author : Mark A. Mark Dodge challenges the heroic narrative by exploring the motives and actions of the Taiwanese actors who supported and established the mission. Religious leaders, teachers, doctors, and businessmen from Northern Taiwan collaborated to build a strong and vital mission, whose phenomenal success brought fame and status to Mackay and their cause.

Opinion within the government was divided over whether to accept this demand or not. However, on 17 April the ' Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ' 'Treaty of Shimonoseki' was signed between the Chinese and Japanese governments which included the cession of Taiwan and the Pescadores, formally acknowledging that Taiwan was Japanese territory. In Taiwan there was strong opposition to the cession of the island to Japan both among the Chinese officials sent over by the Qing government and the leaders of the resident Han Chinese population.

On 23 May these individuals proclaimed Taiwan an independent state known in English as the ' Republic of Formosa '. Subsequently Tang Ching-sung was appointed President of the new state 25 May , a new era name Yongqing, literally 'Forever Qing' and flag were adopted and various other national structures and institutions established.

The Western nations did not intervene in the cession of Taiwan to Japan nor did they recognise the independence movement of the Republic of Formosa. As a result the Republic of Formosa came to war with Japan without the support of the international community. The start of fighting in Taiwan Having acquired Taiwan under the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki , the Japanese government set up new structures to rule the island.

In view of the intense opposition to the cession, the Japanese judged that military force would be necessary to gain control of the island. On 5 June, the Japanese army occupied Keelung and the following day entered Taipei. The army of the Republic of Formosa launched repeated attacks on the Japanese troops at Cape Santiago and Keelung but were unable to stop their advance.

Faced with this situation, on 6 June President Tang , commanding the army in the north of Taiwan, and a succession of other leaders of the Republic, escaped to the Chinese mainland. As a result, Chinese control of the Republic's army broke down and the Japanese were able to march unopposed into Taipei Document 7.

President Tang's replacement as leader of the Republic of Formosa and its armed forces was Liu Yung-fu Liu Yongfu , previously General of the Formosan army, who enjoyed strong popular support thanks to his actions during the Sino-French war of General Liu himself maintained his base in Tainan on the south-west coast of Taiwan and from there directed fighting against the Japanese across the island.

The battle front moves south Although Governor-General Kabayama had occupied Taipei and established systematic control by means of the Office of the Governor-General , there was still great opposition from the Taiwanese people. Kabayama requested reinforcements from Japan and continued to fight his way south towards Tainan , the stronghold of the Republic of Formosa.

At Hsinchu, located south-west of Taipei on the west coast of northern Taiwan, units of the former Chinese army as well as large numbers of volunteer militia had assembled and on 20 June they joined battle with the advancing Japanese.

On 22 June the Japanese entered Hsinchu but were surrounded by the militia and fierce fighting continued for some time in the region from Taipei to Hsinchu Document 8. However, on 25 June the Japanese managed to recapture Hsinchu.