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1917 In Taiwan
Events from the year 1917 in Taiwan, Taiwan under Japanese rule, Empire of Japan. Incumbents Monarchy * List of emperors of Japan, Emperor: Emperor Taishō, Taisho Central government of Japan * Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister: Terauchi Masatake Taiwan * Governor-General of Taiwan, Governor-General: Andō Teibi Events * 5 January – The deadliest part of the 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes occurred, registering at 6.2 on the Richter scale with a shallow hypocentre, killing 54 people. * 12 February – Reverend William Campbell (missionary), William Campbell returns to China. * 24 July – Construction of the Yilan line began. * 22 October – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa and his wife Fusako, Princess Kane, Fusako visited Taiwan. * 29 December — The Waseda University baseball team came to Taiwan. Births * 6 January – Koo Chen-fu, businessman, diplomat, and film producer. * 18 January – Wang Yung-ching, businessman. * 10 February – Chen Ta-ju, lyricist. Cited in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan Under Japanese Rule
The Geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu, Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of the Empire of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan Province, 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 Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895), defeated by Japan with the Capitulation of Tainan (1895), capitulation of Tainan. Japan ruled Taiwan for 50 years. Its capital was located in Taipei, Taihoku (Taipei), the seat of the Governor-General of Taiwan. Taiwan was Japan's first colony and can be viewed as the first step in implementing their "Nanshin-ron, 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, Industrial sector, industry, cultural Japanization (1937 to 1945), and sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa
, was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and the husband of Fusako, Princess Kane, daughter of Emperor Meiji and Concubine Sono Sachiko. Early life Prince Naruhisa was the son of Prince Yoshihisa Kitashirakawa and Princess Tomiko.Takenobu, Yoshitaro. (1906). Prince Naruhisa succeeded as head of the house of Kitashirakawa-no-miya after the death of his father in November 1895 during the First Sino-Japanese War. He was the brother of Prince Tsunehisa Takeda and classmate of Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni and Prince Fumimaro Konoe (peer). Prince Naruhisa graduated from the 20th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy with a commission as a sub-lieutenant in 1904, and the 27th class of the Army Staff College with the rank of colonel. His field of study was artillery. Marriage and family On 29 April 1909, Prince Kitashirakawa married Fusako, Princess Kane (1890–1974), the seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji. Prince an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
王育德
Ong Iok-tek (Ikutoku Ō; /; POJ: Ông Io̍k-tek; Hepburn:''Ō Ikutoku:'' ; 30 January 1924–9 September 1985) was a Taiwanese scholar and early leader of the Taiwan independence movement. He is considered to be an authority on the Southern Min language family and the Taiwanese language. He was born in Tainan Prefecture (modern-day Tainan), during Japanese rule, of a prominent family. He attended Tokyo Imperial University in 1943 but the ongoing World War II compelled him to return to Taiwan after a year. Following the war and handover of Taiwan he took a critical attitude toward the Kuomintang, one accentuated by the killing of his brother, , a Tokyo-educated prosecutor, in the February 28 Incident. His own life threatened by the new regime, he fled to Japan in 1949 and spent the rest of his life there in addition to various other places. He resumed his studies in May 1950, and after completing his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Tokyo, he later taught Taiwanese at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Ta-ju
Chen Ta-ju Cited in: and ( zh, t=陳達儒, p=Chén Dárú; February 10, 1917 – October 24, 1992), also known by his style name Fa Sheng ( zh, t=發生, p=Fáshēng), was a Taiwanese pop song lyricist born in , Taipei. He wrote about 300 lyrics in his lifetime, and his masterpieces include , , "Bitter Heart" (), "Youthful Sorrows and Joys" (), "Farewell by the Harbor" (), and . For his achievements, he was awarded the Special Prize of the 1st Golden Melody Awards in 1989. Biography Early life Chen Ta-ju was born near the Bangka Qingshui Temple in , Taipei during the Japanese rule in Taiwan. He received a Japanese education at a "public school" (kōgakkō), while his father also arranged for him to study Taiwanese Chinese at a private school. At that time, students in "public schools" would be severely reprimanded if caught speaking anything other than Japanese by their Japanese teachers. If they dared to talk back, they could even be slapped. As a teenager, Chen was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yung-ching
Wang Yung-ching (; 18 January 1917 – 15 October 2008), also called YC Wang, was a Taiwanese businessman. He was best known for being the chairman of Formosa Plastics Corporation, one of Taiwan's foremost plastic manufacturing establishments until his retirement in June 2006, where he stepped down at the age of 89. In 2008, ''Forbes'' ranked him as the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion. Despite lacking any formal schooling beyond elementary school, he was ranked 2nd in the ''Forbes'' list of Taiwan's Richest in 2008. Early life and career Wang was born in Chyokutan jō, Shinden ku, Shinden shichō, Taihoku Chō (modern-day Chitan Village, Xindian District, New Taipei City) in then-Japan-ruled-Taiwan. In 1995, Wang signed a contract with Marco Terragni (chairman of Italproducts) to create Inteplast, the biggest company in the world for the production of Cartonplast. Wang served as the chairman of the board of Formosa P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koo Chen-fu
Koo Chen-fu (, 6 January 1917 – 3 January 2005), also known as C.F. Koo, was a Taiwanese businessman, diplomat, and film producer. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and 1998 Wang-Koo summit. He was also a film producer and produced a number of Taiwanese films between 1973 and 1982, such as '' Love, Love, Love'' (1974), '' Eight Hundred Heroes'' (1975), '' Heroes of the Eastern Skies'' (1977), '' The Coldest Winter in Peking'' (1981), and '' Attack Force Z'' (1982). Early life and education Born in northern Taiwan into a wealthy business family headed by his father Koo Hsien-jung. Koo attended Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). He inherited a substantial fortune upon his father’s death in 1937. Koo graduated in 1940 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waseda University
Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. Waseda is organized into 36 departments: 13 undergraduate schools and 23 graduate schools. As of 2023, there are 38,776 undergraduate students and 8,490 graduate students. In addition to a central campus in Shinjuku (Waseda Campus and Nishiwaseda Campus), the university operates campuses in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Nishitōkyō, Tokyo, Nishitōkyō, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Tokorozawa, Honjō, Saitama, Honjō, and Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Kitakyūshū. Waseda also operates 21 research institutes at its main Shinjuku campus. The university is selected as one of the Top Type (Type A) universities under Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT's Top Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Campbell (missionary)
William Campbell () (1841–1921) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Formosa ( Qing Taiwan). He wrote extensively on topics related to Taiwan and was also responsible for founding the island's first school for the blind. Interested in the early history of the island (particularly the Dutch era), his knowledge of the time was such that he was called "without doubt the greatest authority on this subject living". He was probably the first European to see Sun-Moon Lake, which he named ''Lake Candidius'' in honour of the seventeenth century Dutch missionary George Candidius. Mission to Taiwan Campbell arrived in Qing-era Taiwan in 1871 to begin his mission in southern Taiwan, being stationed in Taiwan-fu, the capital of Taiwan Prefecture (modern-day Tainan) and serving both Han Chinese and Taiwanese aborigines in the area. He was a contemporary of Thomas Barclay, James Laidlaw Maxwell and George Leslie Mackay George Leslie Mackay (偕瑞理 or 馬偕 ''Má-kai''; 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916–1917 Nantou Earthquakes
The 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes () affected central Taiwan in 1916 and 1917, causing heavy damage in sparsely populated Nanto Chō (modern-day Nantou County) and claiming 71 lives. The strongest quake registered at 6.8 ML and besides the loss of life caused widespread damage to agricultural and forestry industries in central Taiwan. Earthquakes The series consisted of four main damaging quakes and dozens of smaller quakes which were not so damaging. The first major quake, on 28 August 1916, was the strongest at magnitude 6.8, but the hypocentre was relatively deep in the Earth's crust. The most deadly quake in the series came on January 5 of the following year, registering at 6.2 on the Richter scale with a shallow hypocentre, killing 54 people. Seismometers were installed in the area in 1898 shortly after the Japanese took control of Taiwan, but there was relatively little seismic activity in Nantou between then and 1916. Damage According to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
