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Taiwan 臺灣 (Chinese)[I] Tʻaiwan 臺灣 (Japanese)[a] Taiwan | |||||||||||
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| National seal: 台灣總督之印 Seal of the Governor-General of Taiwan  National badge: 臺字章 Daijishō  | |||||||||||
 Taiwan within the Empire of Japan | |||||||||||
| Status | Part of the Empire of Japan | ||||||||||
| Capital and largest city |  Taihoku | ||||||||||
| Official languages | Japanese | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Taiwanese Hakka Formosan languages | ||||||||||
| Religion | State Shinto Buddhism Taoism Confucianism Chinese folk religion | ||||||||||
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| Government | Government-General | ||||||||||
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• 1895–1912 | Meiji | ||||||||||
• 1912–1926 | Taishō | ||||||||||
• 1926–1945 | Shōwa | ||||||||||
| Governor-General | |||||||||||
• 1895–1896 (first) | Kabayama Sukenori | ||||||||||
• 1944–1945 (last) | Rikichi Andō | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Empire of Japan | ||||||||||
• Treaty of Shimonoseki | 17 April 1895 | ||||||||||
• Destruction of the Republic of Formosa | 21 October 1895 | ||||||||||
• Wushe Rebellion | 27 October 1930 | ||||||||||
• Surrender of Japan | 2 September 1945 | ||||||||||
• Returned to Chinese control | 25 October 1945 | ||||||||||
• Treaty of San Francisco | 28 April 1952 | ||||||||||
• Treaty of Taipei | 5 August 1952 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Taiwanese yen | ||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | TW | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Republic of China (Taiwan) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺灣 or 台灣 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 台湾 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 日治臺灣 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 日治台湾 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hiragana | だいにっぽんていこくたいわん | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Katakana | ダイニッポンテイコクタイワン | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kyūjitai | 大日本帝國臺灣 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shinjitai | 大日本帝国台湾 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The consequent Republic of Formosa resistance movement on Taiwan was defeated by Japan with the capitulation of Tainan. Japan ruled Taiwan for 50 years. Its capital was located in Taihoku (Taipei) led by the Governor-General of Taiwan.
Taiwan was Japan's first colony and can be viewed as the first step in implementing their "Southern Expansion Doctrine" of the late 19th century. Japanese intentions were to turn Taiwan into a showpiece "model colony" with much effort made to improve the island's economy, public works, industry, cultural Japanization, and support the necessities of Japanese military aggression in the Asia-Pacific.[1] Japan established monopolies and by 1945, had taken over all the sales of opium, salt, camphor, tobacco, alcohol, matches, weights and measures, and petroleum in the island.[2]
Japanese administrative rule of Taiwan ended following the surrender of Japan in September 1945 during the World War II period, and the territory was placed under the control of the Republic of China (ROC) with the issuing of General Order No. 1 by US General Douglas MacArthur.[3] Japan formally renounced its sovereignty over Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco effective April 28, 1952. The experience of Japanese rule continues to cause divergent views among several issues in Post-WWII Taiwan, such as the February 28 massacre of 1947, Taiwan Retrocession Day, Taiwanese comfort women, national identity, ethnic identity, and the formal Taiwan independence movement.
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- ^ Pastreich, Emanuel (July 2003). "Sovereignty, Wealth, Culture, and Technology: Mainland China and Taiwan Grapple with the Parameters of "Nation State" in the 21st Century". Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. OCLC 859917872. Archived from the original on April 14, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
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