According to the description of residents of a certain province, the Japanese have brought modernization to Taiwan. Let’s take a look at how much Japan has gained in 50 years of ruling Taiwan and see if they are “doing charity”.

In 1945, Taiwan was restored, and the Japanese left this treasure island they ruled for 50 years sadly. According to the description of residents of a certain province, the Japanese have brought modernization to Taiwan. Let’s take a look at how much Japan has gained in the 50 years of rule over Taiwan and see if they are “doing charity”.

Japan ruled Taiwan as a loss-making deal at the beginning, and Japan once gave up Taiwan and let the French take over. At that time, Japan sent one-third of its army to Taiwan to fight, and its military expenditure in Taiwan was as high as 7 million yen every year. The tax revenue of Taiwan was far from enough. Japan also had to pay 12 million from China's compensation to provide military subsidies to the Taiwan Governor's Office. The Governor of Taiwan, the Japanese military god, Nogi Kidnori, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to sell Taiwan to France for 15 million francs. Unfortunately, Japanese Army Minister Okama Taro came forward. His opinion was that Taiwan is a treasure land. The reason why Nogi Kinomi lost money was purely because he was not good at using his brain and was too slow in his ability.

Okamaki Gentaro directly replaced Nogi Hinomi and began to carry out economic colonization in Taiwan. Gentaro Kotaro once built the Manchu Railway, a rectangular economic organization that Japan invaded, and was responsible for the Japanese army's logistics during the Sino-Japanese War . He was known as "Xiao He of the Japanese-Ching War ". He also built the Manchu Railway. In terms of managing the colony, Nogi Hinomi was indeed a fool compared to him. As soon as this Japanese invading China arrived in Taiwan in 1898, he promulgated the "Taiwan Cadastral Order" and the "Land Investigation Rules", imitating the Toyotomi Hideyoshi to start land investigations in Taiwan. During the Russo-Japanese War, he also asked his subordinates Goto Shinhei ( Okara Taro Yukinao participated in the war during the Russo-Japanese War, but he served as the governor of Taiwan, and the actual person in charge of Taiwan affairs was Goto Shinhei) to implement the "Land Registration Rules", taking advantage of Taiwan's land registration loopholes and annexed a large amount of Taiwan land for Japan in one fell swoop. Okara Taro also implemented a monopoly on opium, tobacco, alcohol and cash crops in Taiwan, not only to let Japan "return to its capital", but also supported a large number of economic accomplices. Today, several famous wealthy families in Taiwan have to say "thank you" to him.

Because Gentaro Kotaro's excellent work, several governors whom he succeeded after his death also inherited his policies and carried them forward. In 1911, Sakuma Zuo Matthew announced the "Land Purchase Rules", which stipulated that the Japanese could buy local farmers' land at very low prices in specific areas. After several Taiwan governors, the Taiwan colonial government directly acquired 2462,000 Taiwan land (16 acres or 2.4 acres per Chinese), Japanese chaebols and Japanese immigrants occupied 181,000 Taiwan land, while the total land area of ​​Taiwan was only 370,700,000. The Japanese colonial government and the Japanese occupied 68.5% of Taiwan's land (most of the remaining land belongs to the large landlords who have close ties with Japan). Because the Japanese occupied most of Taiwan’s land, they naturally had the urge to build water conservancy projects and open up land. Some people in Taiwan also praise this, but what they did not say is that Taiwan also needs to provide Japan with half of the total output of rice. In order not to let the Japanese go hungry, the Japanese don’t care how many Taiwanese people starve to death.

During the period when Japan occupied Taiwan, the most important source of wealth was this production. As early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zheng Chenggong Group used Taiwanese sugar to exchange massive wealth from Japan . The Qing Dynasty also inherited this strategy. According to Japanese estimates, from the first year of Kangxi to the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, the Japanese lost more than 100 million kilograms of copper due to trading sugar with Chinese people. After Japan occupied Taiwan, it began to squeeze out revenge. From 1909 to 1910, Taiwan's sugar production was 204,241 tons, and the Japanese plundered 197,580 tons. From the 1920s, Taiwan's sugar production soared to 498,000 metric tons, worth more than 70 million silver dollars (at that time, 890,000 tons of sugar was worth 1.5.7 billion silver dollars), and after 1930, it soared to 948,000 tons, worth nearly 200 million silver dollars. All minerals and forestry in Taiwan belong to Japan, and Taiwan is also the dumping place of Japanese industrial products. Taiwanese people formed the concept of noble Japanese goods. At their peak, Japan could earn nearly 300 million silver dollars from Taiwan every year.Japan established modern facilities in Taiwan, but all of them were plundered from Taiwan.

It took away Taiwan’s wealth and left the royal people everywhere. There are a large number of rebels in Taiwan, but these people have been killed by the Japanese. Japan colonized Taiwan for 50 years and killed 400,000 to 600,000 rebels (according to Japanese statistics, it was 400,000 in the first 20 years), and 37,000 people were killed during the reign of Goto Shinhei alone. This population proportion is very large. From 1895 to 1945, the total population of Taiwan hovered between 3 million and 5 million.

The Japanese killed all the Chinese with a spirit of resistance, and most of the people who left behind were royal people who were willing to cooperate with the Japanese and even died. During the War of Resistance and period, a total of 426,000 Taiwanese recruited the Japanese army, and 300,000 joined the Japanese army, accounting for five percent of Taiwan's total population at that time, and the proportion of joining the army was equivalent to that of Prussia's heyday. More than 30,000 of these Taiwanese people died in battle and entered the Yasukuni Shrine. There were 176 war criminals in the list, and 26 Taiwanese war criminals were sentenced to death.

Japan occupied Taiwan for 50 years, took away a huge amount of wealth, but left us a treasure island with many hidden dangers...