A Japanese immigrant village established on the outskirts of Taitung City in 1938. It was originally comprised of four settlements scattered across an expanse of land now bisected by the Taitung Airport, from Upper Kangle (上康樂) to central Kangle (康樂) further east. Not much remains of the original village today, and it is somewhat unusual in not having the usual chessboard street layout.
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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)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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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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.