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  • Request for Divorce

    Request for Divorce

    Introduction by Tadashi Ishikawa, University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL, U.S.A.). Published on Dec 18, 2020. Ms. Liao Yinghua’s divorce case against Mr. Chen Junxiu presents sources of information that revealed the layered development of law in the interwar Japanese empire, the woman question, and gender and sexuality. Both civil and criminal law, as well as their… Read more

  • Commentary on Discriminatory Rice Policy

    Commentary on Discriminatory Rice Policy

    Introduction by Chan Qiu Qing (Supervised by Sayaka Chatani), National University of Singapore. Published on Dec 21, 2020. Rice has long been a significant livelihood issue to the populations of East Asia. The procurement of this staple food was of critical importance to many regimes. In the early twentieth century, the Japanese government faced a variety of… Read more

  • Youth Associations and Thought Guidance

    Youth Associations and Thought Guidance

    Introduction by Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore. Published on Jan 19, 2021. At the beginning of colonial rule of Taiwan, Japanese-built elementary schools were not popular among elite Taiwanese families, who continued to appreciate Chinese classics. Public schools spread in cities and even in remote rural areas relatively quickly, however, once Taiwanese population realized… Read more

  • My Proposal for an Interethnic Marriage Was Refused

    Introduction by Alison J Darby, The Australian National University (Canberra). Published on May 06, 2021. How best to manage intimate relationships between Japanese and their Taiwanese and Korean colonial subjects was a key problem for Japanese colonial authorities. Unlike most Anglo-European empires, Japanese colonial authorities endorsed interethnic marriage and racial mixing. The Government-General of Taiwan… Read more

  • Reasons for Requesting the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament

    Reasons for Requesting the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament

    Introduction by James Gerien-Chen, University of Florida. Published on Oct 19, 2022. In January 1923, a group of young Taiwanese men delivered a petition to the headquarters of the Taipei Police to request permission to form the “League for the Establishment of a Taiwan Parliament” (Taiwan gikai kisei dōmeikai). After the colonial police denied their… Read more

  • Kondō the Barbarian and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples

    Kondō the Barbarian and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples

    Taiwan was annexed as a condition of the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed by the Qing and Japanese imperial governments on April 17, 1895. From the 1895 annexation through 1902, Han (Chinese) Taiwanese rebels fought sustained guerrilla campaigns against the new Japanese government in the western half of the island. Eastern Taiwan, including the island’s majestic… Read more

  • “We Are Two Sisters”: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China

    “We Are Two Sisters”: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China

    Introduction by Shaun Lee Yi Xian (Supervised by Sayaka Chatani), National University of Singapore. Published on Jul 31, 2023. Despite not being a Japanese colony, China became a site of many Korean and Taiwanese nationalist efforts in the 1920s. This was so especially before the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalists)–Chinese Communist Party (CCP) United Front ended and… Read more