One of the last vestiges of Japanese immigrant villages along the Dongluo River (東螺溪) floodplain is this humble irrigation canal bridge, now flush with the surface of farmers’ roads coursing through the fields south of the former settlement. It is unremarkable except for the inscription, which is written in barely legible Japanese, a rare find given post-war orders to scrub any such writing from monuments and infrastructure.
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Links
- Taichung, From Records to Memories (台中,從記錄變成記憶)
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.