One of three Japanese immigrant villages established on reclaimed land next to the riverside in Pingtung County to grow tobacco in the 1930s. It was formed from the Kiyohara (清原), Nakatomi (中富), and Toyohira (豐平) settlements, with migrants drawn largely from Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku. Alongside their tobacco fields and curing barns, the settlers established the Tokiwa Elementary School (常盤尋常高等小學校), which was merged into Ligang Elementary School after the war.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Sources
- Taiwan Shinto Shrines App, Kuona Lab. 《台灣神社遺構地圖》
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Japanese Immigrant Villages in Taiwan (台灣日治時期日本移民村)
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