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Topic: Taipei Prefecture (Japanese Rule)

	Taipei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taipei City ( Simplified Chinese : å°å—å¸; Traditional Chinese : èºå—å¸; pinyin : TÃ¡ibÄ•i ShÃ¬ ; Taiwanese Romanization : TÃ¢i-pak ChhÄ«; coordinates 25Â° 02' N, 121Â° 38' E) is the capital of the Republic of China and the largest city in Taiwan island.
		Taipei City is located in the Taipei Basin in northern Taiwan and is bordered on the south by the Sindian River, and the Danshuei on the west.
		The Easy Card, which is the Taipei's equivalent to Hong Kong 's Octopus Card, is extremely convenient since it is read via sensory panels on buses and in MRT stations capable of scanning through wallets or purses, thus eliminating the need for the passenger to remove the card from his or her wallet or purse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taipei (1302 words)

	Taipei Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of Japanese rule (during which the city was known in Japanese as Taihoku) including the Presidential Palace which was the former mansion of the Japanese governor and which faces Tokyo.
		The office of mayor of Taipei is seen as a stepping stone to higher office, both the current and previous Presidents of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian and Lee Teng-hui were former mayors.
		Taipei 101 is a new financial center being constructed in Taipei.
	forum.top5miami.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taipei.html (525 words)

	taipei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Taipei City ( Chinese : 台北市, pinyin : Táibĕi Shì, tai : Tâi-pak) is the provisional capital of the Republic of China and the largest city in Taiwan.
		Taipei was also the capital of Taiwan Province until the 1960s when that was moved to Jhongsing Village.
		Taipei 101 is a new financial center in Taipei.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Taipei.html (787 words)

	Taipei -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Taipei City is a special (An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government) municipality administered directly under the central government.
		Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan ese rule (during which the city was known in Japanese as Taihoku) including the Presidential Building which was the Office of the Taiwan Governor-General.
		Taipei was also the capital of (Click link for more info and facts about Taiwan Province) Taiwan Province until the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s when that was moved to (Click link for more info and facts about Jhongsing Village) Jhongsing Village.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ta/Taipei.htm (2639 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Taipei
		Taipei's early construction was based on traditional Chinese geomancy, with walls to the east and west, mountains surrounding and the Hsintien River as the required body of water in front.
		Japanese rule was harsh, and led to widespread dissatisfaction from the Taiwanese.
		Taipei was mildly affected by the 1999 earthquake that hit the centre of Taiwan.
	aolsvc.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/asia/taipei/history.html (1024 words)

	Harvard Studies on Taiwan Vol. 3: Joseph R. Allen
		The transition from late imperial Chinese rule to Japanese occupation of Taipei is remarkable both as a forecast of the modernization of the Chinese city in the twentieth century and as a deviation from what that process would become.
		Once the Japanese settled into their new role as model colonialists, a role that became fixed during the innovative and enlightened rule of General Kodama Gentaro and his civil administrator Goto Shimpei (1898-1906), they quickly turned to making Taipei into a blueprint for the wide ranging plans of cultural transformation of the island.
		Japanese Shinto shrines were built throughout the island, but especially in the Taipei suburbs, consistently of traditional design.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~fairbank/tsw/allen.html (8016 words)

	History of Taiwan
		In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong (Cheng Ch'eng-kung in Wade-Giles, known in the West as Koxinga), arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia.
		The uprising, led by Monalu Dao was crushed by 2000 to 3000 Japanese troops and Aboriginal auxiliaries.
		Internationally, the Republic of China, headquartered in Taipei, was recognized as the sole legitimate government of China by the United Nations and most Western nations, both of which refused to recognize the People's Republic of China on account of the Cold War.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_taiwan.html (3166 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges \| ...
		Buried beneath the outlines of the main narrative of Chinese and Japanese responses to Western challenges is the fate of the Ryūkyū kingdom.
		For the Japanese rulers, Korean identity was often subordinated to different projects of assimilation that portrayed colonial rule as a means to achieve participation in a modern society that was distinctly East Asian with the Japanese at the center.
		Japanese abilities to move more quickly in Taiwan did not result simply from their building up of new kinds of power but equally from the revised set of regional political relationships created by the placement of the region in a larger network of relations by the expansion of Western political power.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/seascapes/wong.html (8715 words)

	History of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This segment of railroad became too old in the Japanese eye, and was demolished for modernization later under Japanese rule.
		The "kominka" was a grand design to instill the "Japanese Spirit" in Taiwanese residents and to assimilate the Taiwanese into Japanese society, with measures including compulsory Japanese education and the adoption of Japanese names.
		During the 1930s several home rule groups were created as the Taiwanese developed a "Taiwan Consciousness" in contrast to the Japanese and Chinese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Taiwan (3779 words)

	Senkaku Islands Geography Political Dispute Chinese Rule Or (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese scholars claims that neither China nor Okinawa had recognition of sovereignty over the uninhabited islands so that Chinese documents only prove that Kumejima, the first inhabited island the Chinese met, belonged to Okinawa.
		After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Government conducted surveys of the islands from 1885 that confirmed for her that these uninhabited islands had no trace of having been under the control of China.
		Japanese scholars point out that it was not so difficult for the ROC to occupy these island in 1945 because she had already incorporated Taiwan and the surrounding islands two months before the U.S. military occupation extended to Yaeyama Islands.
	www.masterliness.com /a/Senkaku.htm (1370 words)

	Taipei Subdivisions History Politics Sister Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Taipei City ( Chinese The Chinese language (/, /, or ; pinyin: hany, huay, or zhongwen) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of Japan ese rule (during which the city was known in Japanese as Taihoku) including the Presidential Building which was the Office of the Taiwan Governor-General.
		Taipei 101 Taipei 101 ( 101) is a 106-floor skyscraper in Hsinyi (Xinyi) District, Taipei, Taiwan.
	www.masterliness.com /a/Taipei.htm (1698 words)

	Taipei - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Indeed, it was partly due to this fact that Chen Shui-bian was able to win the mayorship in 1994, despite tendencies that made him the obvious DPP candidate for President in 2000.
		Taipei's public transport system MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) uses both a light rail system based on VAL technology and a conventional metro.
		Taipei Main Station is the largest railway station in Taiwan and also functions as the nexus for the MRT system.
	www.iridis.com /Taipei (1086 words)

	Taipei - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A new city was established in Taipei basin for the new bureaucracy.
		Taipei was a temporary capical of the province before it became the official one in 1894.
		Taipei's public transport system MRT(Mass Rapid Transit)uses both a light rail system based on VAL technology (known as MRT) and a conventional metro.
	www.greatestinfo.org /Taipei (1017 words)

	Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On May 25, 1895, the Republic of Taiwan was formed to resist impending Japanese rule with its capital in Tainan.
		Taiwan's two largest cities, Taipei City and Kaohsiung City, although on the island of Taiwan, are not part of the Taiwan Province, but centrally administered municipalities, with the same level as provinces.
		Japanese culture has had a strong influence in Taiwan including various mannerisms among the elderly who remember Japanese rule, and TV dramas and anime amongst the younger generations.
	www.infoslurp.com /information/Taiwan (3134 words)

	Senkaku Islands - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese scholars show that the History of Ming (明史), the official history book of the Ming Dynasty compiled during the Qing period, classifies Taiwan and surrounding islands as "foreign countries".
		Japan claims that after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Government conducted surveys of the islands from 1885 that confirmed for her that these uninhabited islands had no trace of having been under the control of China.
		In that year, the Tokyo court ruled that the islands are part of Taihoku Prefecture ( Taipei Prefecture), following a dispute between Okinawa Prefecture and Taihoku Prefecture.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Senkaku_Islands (1541 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Control Yuan is opposite the Executive Yuan, another historic government compound built by the Japanese during their 50 years of occupation.
		Designed by Japanese architect Moriyama Matsunosuke, one of the main designers of Taiwan's offices under Japanese colonial rule, the two-story building of steel, concrete and brick was completed in 1915.
		Japanese colonists first used the building as the Taipei Prefecture Office, the headquarters for the northern counties of Taipei, Keelung and Ilan.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2004/01/22/2003092266/print (786 words)

	Lonely Planet World Guide \| Destination Taipei
		Taipei is a boisterous and expensive city, and it lets you know it.
		When to Go Taipei is good all year round, though the humidity could really get to you if you're staying for an extended period of time.
		In the rush to develop, Taipei has knocked over most of its lovely old residences: Lin Antai Old Homestead is one of the few to have been preserved, and for this reason alone it is remarkable.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/north_east_asia/taipei/printable.htm (2536 words)

	Taipei - Surch
		Taipei City ( Chinese : 台北市, pinyin : Táibĕi Shì, tai.
		Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of Japan ese rule (during which the city was known in Japanese as Taihoku) including the Presidential Palace which was the former mansion of the Japanese governor and which faces Tokyo.
		Taipei city has a higher proportion of Mainlander s than average in Taiwan.
	www.surch.co.uk /-/Taipei.html (758 words)

	ZUJI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Under the management of its different rulers the area within the city walls has evolved from wide open countryside into the administrative, economic and cultural center of Taiwan in just 100 years.
		Taiwan's new president Chen Shui-bian recently proposed a meeting with China to discuss reconcilation, however the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Taiwan must accept it was a part of China before anything could be discussed.
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	www.zuji.com /dest/guide/0,1277,ZUJIAU\|2769\|3059\|1,00.html (929 words)

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