An early Japanese colonial era sugar factory established in 1910 in what is now Hemei as the first plant and head office of Niitaka Sugar (新高製糖株式會社), which Dai-Nippon Sugar absorbed in 1935. It was heavily damaged by US bombing in World War 2 and sugar production did not resume until 1947. Not long thereafter the site was judged unsuitable for sugar production and the factory finally closed in 1953. From 1980 the land was sold off in stages for housing and public buildings. The legacy of the factory lives on in street names in the neighbourhood and in the komainu of Kotohira Factory Shinto Shrine, now on display at Demei Park.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Heritage Map of Taiwan Sugar Factories (台灣製糖工場百年文史地圖)
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- World War 2 History in Taiwan (台灣第二次世界大戰歷史)
- Sugar Industry in Taiwan (台灣糖業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.