日治時期臺灣總督府中央研究所林業部之成立及其人事結構分析(1921~1939)

Abstract

This article provides a preliminary description of the main points of the establishment of Department of Forestry of The Central Research Institute of Taiwan Government-General, as well as an analysis of the department's personnel structure, endeavoring to explain its historical role in the development of forestry research during Japan's occupation of Taiwan. According to research conducted for this article, The Forestry Experimental Station was reformed and renamed the Department of Forestry of The Central Research Institute, which not only elevated it in the organizational hierarchy, but also largely improved its research resources and academic system. There were 11 staff members who were retained in their positions, making up 40.74% of the entire total of 27 technicians and technical assistants. This demonstrates that there was a degree of continuity in staff structure between the Department of Forestry and the Forestry Experimental Station. The Department of Forestry not only retained the Forestry Experimental Station's staff structure traditions, but also inherited its research subjects, continuing to deepen and expand, which allowed forestry studies to develop steadily and strongly during the period of Japan's occupation of Taiwan. On the other hand, the staff of the Department of Forestry in the majority consisted of personnel from Honshu, Japan. Among the 23 staff members, those who had a professional background in agriculture or forestry accounted for 78.26%, possessing a high standard of professional knowledge, and among these members, 30.43% were graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. From this it can be seen that the percentage of personnel with academic backgrounds as graduates of Tokyo Imperial University was the highest. It is also evident that the academic origins of Taiwan's Forestry Experiment Station and Forestry experiment system have the deepest ties to Tokyo Imperial University. After undergoing more than 20 years of development under Japan's governorship, Taiwan's Forestry Research Institute became more independent. By this time, the responsibility for carrying out the core research had been transferred from Tokyo Imperial University to the Department of Forestry of The Central Research Institute. Due to policy demands, the Department of Forestry's forestry research system was later passed on to Taipei Imperial University to take over. Therefore, as far as academic history is concerned, the establishment of the Department of Forestry truly has historical significance in its example of adopting the teachings handed down from the past as well as opening new frontiers.