Established by the Japanese colonial government in 1935 to develop land opened to settlement after flood control measures made it viable. Initially tobacco was cultivated in the area, and every residence had their own curing chamber. As with other immigrant villages in the area a Shinto shrine was established here in 1940 to commemorate the 2600th anniversary of Imperial Japan, but no known trace remains. After the war it was reorganized as a collective farm after the Japanese residents were expelled. Now known as Xinzhuang Community (新庄社區). It might have also been known as Hinode Immigrant Village (日之出移民村).
Map
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Sources
- Kaneko Nobuya, Japanese Deities Overseas, Yeren Publishing House, 2020 金子展也，《遠渡來台的日本諸神：日治時期的台灣神社田野踏查》，野人，2020
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
- Japanese Immigrant Villages in Taiwan (台灣日治時期日本移民村)
- Tobacco Industry in Taiwan (台灣菸業)
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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.