A small park on the northwest side of Hengchun collecting several Japanese colonial era monuments relocated or preserved here over the years. These include the Loyal Soul Monument (忠魂碑) on a small hill named Houdongshan (猴洞山) which commemorating fallen Japanese soldiers; the Arms Preparation Memorial (兵器整備紀念碑) from around 1937 to 1939; and the base of the Japanese Army Hengchun Conquest Memorial (日軍攻陷恆春城紀念碑) marking the November 1895 capture of the city. A boundary marker for the southernmost point of Japanese Taiwan (日本統治臺灣最南端界碑) is also said to exist here.
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Links
- Keepon (登山補給站)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Contested Heritage in Taiwan (爭議文化遺產)
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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.