Kada Immigrant Village

The first privately-operated Japanese immigrant village in Taiwan, established by camphor merchant Kada Kinzaburō (賀田金三郎) after his company secured a large concession across the southern margins of Hualien City in 1899. He brought 385 settlers from Fukushima and Ehime prefectures in 1906. Unlike the later state-operated immigrant villages the company also recruited overseas Chinese tenant farmers. The area was renamed from the earlier Han pioneer settlement of Wuquan City (吳全城) and was eventually absorbed into the consolidated Kotobuki Village. All Japanese residents were repatriated after 1945 and only fragmentary traces of the original village survive in present-day Shoufeng.