Taihoku Imperial University Research Articles

Reconcile the past with the present by pranking on April Fool’s Day? A critical reflection on the Operation Bust of NTU History Gallery

ABSTRACT To pique the interest of local audiences in learning the pre-WWII history of National Taiwan University (NTU) and facilitate the dialogue between different ideologists on protecting colonial heritage, the History Gallery of NTU conceived an April Fool’s prank revolving around the sculpted representations of Japanese colonial figures in Taiwan. The main plotline is based on an actual historical event of a bust-unveiling ceremony for president Shidehara, the first president of the antecedent of NTU—Taihoku Imperial University. The prank began with systemic dissemination of the news regarding the finding of a head sculpture of Viscount Kodama Gentarō, culminated in an announcement of a serendipitous discovery of the bust for president Shidehara on April Fool’s Day, and ended by recounting the stories of rescuing the busts for Dr Hidetaka and Dr Tomoe. Despite drawing some criticism, the Gallery was acclaimed by many for its originality, responsiveness, and thoroughness in the campaign.

台湾大学 (旧台北帝国大学) 所蔵「金生山化石標本」の調査報告

台湾大学 (旧台北帝国大学) 所蔵「金生山化石標本」の調査報告

The Evolution of Institute for Research in Tropical Medicine, Taihoku Imperial University

The Evolution of Institute for Research in Tropical Medicine, Taihoku Imperial University

Zoological Research in Taihoku Imperial University Elucidated from the Mammal Specimens Collected by Prof. Bunichiro Aoki

Zoological Research in Taihoku Imperial University Elucidated from the Mammal Specimens Collected by Prof. Bunichiro Aoki

Tetsuo Nozoe: Chemistry and Life

Tetsuo Nozoe: Chemistry and Life

殖民現代性法學：日本殖民統治下臺灣現代法學知識的發展（1895-1945）

Taiwan could not develop modern knowledge of law until she was ruled by Japanese colonialists, who had received training in modern law and jurisprudence from the West before their acquiring Taiwan. During the former period of Japanese rule, ＂old customs jurisprudence,＂ with local characteristics, was shaped for the sake of the judicial, executive, and even legislative needs in colonial Taiwan, and therefore declined after the policy of the colonial governance turned to ＂the extension of mainland.＂ Next, ＂jurisprudence for the extension of mainland＂ became prevalent. Jurisprudence in Taiwan was thus nothing but a branch of prewar Japanese jurisprudence. The first institute for modern legal education in Taiwan was established in 1928 and named as: Legal Division, College of Liberal Arts and Political Science, Taihoku Imperial University. This division, however, paid more attention to Japanese laws and modern jurisprudence than to legal issues in Taiwan. Only a limited knowledge concerning colonial Taiwan or Taiwanese was created by this institution. Nevertheless, some dissident Taiwanese advocated ＂Taiwanese jurisprudence＂ in order to protect the identity and interests of the Taiwanese. They unfortunately were excluded from the academic circle of colonial Taiwan. Few Taiwanese jurists had a voice on family and succession law, which was allowed to follow Taiwanese customs in the positive law. In the late period of Japanese rule, the fascist approach gradually dominated the legal community of Taiwan, who were forced to follow the step of wartime Japan.

Possible Experiments executed in the Taihoku Imperial University Laboratory of Psychology

Possible Experiments executed in the Taihoku Imperial University Laboratory of Psychology

The using situation of psychological equipments in Taihoku Imperial University #II

The using situation of psychological equipments in Taihoku Imperial University #II

Foundation and Development of the Faculty of Literature and Politics Taihoku Imperial University

Foundation and Development of the Faculty of Literature and Politics Taihoku Imperial University

Meteorology on the Southern Frontier of Japan's Empire: Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University

This paper outlines some characteristics of the academic activity in the Japanese colonial setting, with special reference to meteorology on the southern colonial frontier of Japan's Empire, through the works of Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University. We first review the establishment of Japan's overseas meteorological network and the corresponding institutionalization of meteorology in that period. We will then consider Ogasawara's academic works at Taihoku Imperial University, and analyse how a pure scientist shifted to colonial management and justified Japan's expansion as far as Australia and New Zealand. We will examine his moral dilemma, how he wrote his work on tropical climate, and his interpretation of Huntingtonian environmental determinism. Through the analysis of Ogasawara's works, we are able to see at least one aspect of Japan's colonial science, its syncretic nature and pragmatism.

Meteorology on the Southern Frontier of Japan’s Empire: Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University

This paper outlines some characteristics of the academic activity in the Japanese colonial setting, with special reference to meteorology on the southern colonial frontier of Japan’s Empire, through the works of Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University. We first review the establishment of Japan’s overseas meteorological network and the corresponding institutionalization of meteorology in that period. We will then consider Ogasawara’s academic works at Taihoku Imperial University, and analyse how a pure scientist shifted to colonial management and justified Japan’s expansion as far as Australia and New Zealand. We will examine his moral dilemma, how he wrote his work on tropical climate, and his interpretation of Huntingtonian environmental determinism. Through the analysis of Ogasawara’s works, we are able to see at least one aspect of Japan’s colonial science, its syncretic nature and pragmatism.

Taiwan's Higher Agricultural Education in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University

Taiwan's Higher Agricultural Education in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University

Indonesian studies in Japanese anthropology

Three main subjects have been selected for this introduction to Indonesian studies by Japanese anthropologists and scholars of related disciplines. One is the place of Southeast Asian and Indonesian studies in Japanese anthropology as a whole. The other pertains to Indonesian studies as an interface between Japanese and Western anthropology. The third is the impact of Japanese Indonesian studies upon the work of others studying Indonesia. As I am not an Indonesianist myself, I will not pass judgement on the actual contents of the studies as contributions to Indonesian studies proper. Anthropology became an academic discipline in Japan when the Imperial University of Tokyo (the present-day University of Tokyo) established the first chair in this subject in 1893. The Society for Anthropology (Jinruigakkai) had been formed nine years earlier, while one can trace indigenous traditions and roots in social surveys and culturologies produced much further back in history (see Terada 1981). Although physical anthropology occupied the dominant place at the university in the first half of the twentieth century, important work was nevertheless also done by members of ethnological societies, and by scholars engaged in ethnological research in institutes, museums and universities. The establishment in Formosa of the Taihoku Imperial University (the present National Taiwan University) in 1928, for instance, promoted the study of Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The head ?f the Institute of Ethnology here was the ethno-historian Utsurikawa Nenoz?2, a student of Roland Burrage Dixon's and a pioneer of

Medical education in the Republic of China.

In 1895, the Taiwan Hospital was established in Taipei and provided training for local people. This developed into the Taiwan Government Medical School. In 1936, the Faculty of Medicine was established in the Taihoku Imperial University for training high school graduates and became National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 1945. This was the first medical college in Taiwan. There are currently eight medical colleges in Taiwan. The number of medical and health care personnel has increased tremendously in recent years. Most of the information in this paper was collected from the reports or publications of these eight medical colleges and the Ministry of Education. Some current publications of medical education in Taiwan have been used. The information includes undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and continuing medical education. Today, medical education is changing and progressing, however there are still some problems that need to be solved. Certainly we believe medical education is close related to health care in this country. Health care should be related to the needs of the population. The developments and changes in medical education are closely linked with trends in health care programs and with advances in the medical sciences. As the scientific foundation of clinical practice has expanded, the caring aspect of medicine has been given less emphasis. In the past, medical education has focused too much on teaching the medical sciences, and tended to neglect education about medical care and people’s health. Medical care education and medical science education should be united as much as possible, thus forming “holistic” medical education. Medical education must be a continuing process. This concept needs to be emphasized in our medical school.

Modern Aztec grammatical sketches Edited by Ronald W. Langacker (review)

REVIEWS211 Gravius, Daniel. 1661. Het heylige evangelium Matthei en Johannis ... overgeset inde Formosaansche tale, voor de inwoonders van Soulang, Mattau, Sinckan, Bacloan, Tavokan, en Tevorang. Amsterdam. Happart, Georgius. 1650. Woord-boek der Favorlangsche taal. [Translated in Campbell.] Klaproth, Julius Heinrich. 1822. Sur la langue des indigènes de l'île de Formose. Journal Asiatique 1.193-202. Li, Paul Jen-Kuei. 1972. On comparative Tsou. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sínica, 44.311-38. ------. 1977. The internal relationships of Rukai. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sínica, 48:1.1—92. Ogawa, Naoyoshi, and Erin Asai. 1935. Myths and traditions of the Formosan native tribes [in Japanese]. Taipei: Taihoku Imperial University. Pawley, Andrew, and Lawrence A. Reíd. 1976. The evolution of transitive constructions in Austronesian. Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Hawaii, 8:2.51-74. Stanley, Patricia. 1974. Syntax of Tsou verbs: Implications for comparative studies. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Comparative Austronesian Linguistics, Honolulu. Tung, T'ung-ho, et al. 1964. A descriptive study of the Tsou language, Formosa. (Institute of History and Philology, Special publication 48.) Taipei: Academia Sínica. Wolff, John U. 1973. Verbal inflection in Proto-Austronesian. Parangal Kay Cecilio Lopez, ed. by Andrew Gonzales (Philippine Journal of Linguistics, Special monograph 4), 71-91. Quezon City. [Received 20 March 1980.] Modern Aztec grammatical sketches. Edited by Ronald W. Langacker. (SIL publications in linguistics, 56; Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar, 2.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington, 1979. Pp. x, 380. Reviewed by Una Canger, University of Copenhagen This work, the second ofa set ofthree volumes edited by Langacker, contains sketches of four modern Aztec dialects, prepared by participants in a SIL UtoAztecan workshop held under Langacker's direction from January through April 1976 at Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico. The four sketches are on Tetelcingo , by David H. Tuggy; North Puebla Náhuatl, by Earl Brockway; Huasteca Náhuatl, by Richard and Patricia Beller; and Michoacán Nahual, by William R. Sischo. No map is given to show the geographical location of the four dialects. Volume 3 will contain sketches of five other Uto-Aztecan languages. In the foreword, L states that 'the purpose of these sketches [in volumes 2 and 3] is to provide Uto-Aztecan scholars, linguists generally, and other interested people with reasonably comprehensive basic information about a variety of Uto-Aztecan languages.' He continues: 'To facilitate understanding and comparison, we have adopted fairly uniform transcriptions, abbreviations, and formats.' Langacker 1977 (reviewed by Miller 1979) presents his overview in a format which L has developed over the years in working with Uto-Aztecan languages; and this format is used in the present volume. Thus grammatical 212LANGUAGE, VOLUME 57, NUMBER 1 (1981) information is organized in the following larger units: 'Introduction', 'Phonology ', 'Syntax of simple sentences', 'Derivational morphology', 'Nominal constituents ', 'Complex sentences', 'Subordination', and 'Text'. Most of these units are further divided into labeled sections; e.g., under 'Verbs', we find 'Stems', 'Incorporation', 'Syntactic marking', 'Non-syntactic affixation', and 'Over-all verb structure'. In each article the authors' task has been to fill in the given sections with material from the one dialect they have studied. Thus the main part of the sketches naturally consists of examples with translations, with little or no comment. The analysis of the examples must be deduced from the segmentation , morpheme translations, and titles of the sections under which the examples are entered. Thus, in the section on 'Verb morphology', Tuggy (42), under adj +X = V, has '-¡.wl-iew become adj' with the example cicil-iew-i (red-VR-iNTRNs) 'reddens': we are to understand that verbs are derived from adjectives with the suffix -iW-ietv-i. The sketches are thus like organized inventories of forms and constructions; and in uncontroversial cases this may be sufficient. But there is no discussion of the many problems which the authors must have faced in filling the sections with appropriate examples. In Aztec it is often difficult to determine whether a stem or root is a noun, an adjective, or a verb. On p. 43, Tuggy again uses 'red' in an example: under X + Y...

A Note on Japanese Research in Formosa

A Note on Japanese Research in Formosa

Studies on the mode of transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti

Journal Article Studies on the mode of transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti Get access Sadamu Yokogawa, M.D., D.Sc. Sadamu Yokogawa, M.D., D.Sc. Department of Experimental Pathology & Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku Formosa, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 32, Issue 5, 28 February 1939, Pages 653–668, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(39)90029-5 Published: 28 February 1939

STUDIES ON THE CHANGES IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. IV

STUDIES ON THE CHANGES IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. IV: On the Liver Function, with special reference to the Excretions of Azorubine S, Congo Red and Santonin dyes. Get access TADASHI SHOJI TADASHI SHOJI Departments of Gynaccology and Medical Chemistry of the affiliated College of Medicine, Taihoku Imperial University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 25, Issue 3, 1937, Pages 533–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a125634 Published: 01 May 1937 Article history Received: 29 March 1937 Published: 01 May 1937

STUDIES ON THE CHANGES IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THE NEW BORN INFANT. V

STUDIES ON THE CHANGES IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THE NEW BORN INFANT. V: On the Synthesis of Indican Get access TADASHI SHŌJI TADASHI SHŌJI Departments of Gynaecology and Medical Chemistry, affiliated College of Medicine, Taihoku Imperial University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 26, Issue 2, 1937, Pages 167–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a125659 Published: 01 January 1937 Article history Published: 01 January 1937 Received: 31 March 1937

On the Formosan Chicken Mit, <i>Neoschöngastia gallinarum</i> (Hatori, 1920)

Since Dr. Hatori (1920) discovered the Formosan chicken mite (Trombicula gallinarum) from the chicken, kingfisher, goatsucker and raven, the present author observed the species from several chickens and sparrows too.The species have five setae on the scutum in addition to the pseudostigmatic organs which are strongly capitate and each chelicera bears but a single dorsal tooth near the apex, and the palpal claws are trifurcate. Therefore, the present author believes the species belongs to the genus Neoschöngastia Ewing, 1929.Neoschöngastia gallinarum (Hatori, 1920).syn. Trombicula gallinarum Hatori, 1920.Body oval; striations prominent, slightly crenulated; pitting on scutum, epistome, hypostom, legs and palpi. Fangs of chelicerae stout, sharply pointed; dorso-apical tooth minute, very sherp, directed backwards, ventral tooth absent; maxillary setae plain. Palpi rounded; first and second palpal setae with a few barbs; on fourth segment three setae with a few barbs, appendiculum with four pectinate setae; palpal claw trifurcat. Scutum broader than long (mean L 39 μ; W 70 μ; pseudostigmata 39 μ apart), trapezoidal, anterior and lateral margins convex, posterior margin rather sharply concave in centre, corners somewhat angular anteriorly, rounded posteriorly; scutal setae five in number, strongly pectinate, anterior pair the longest, median anterior the shortest. Pseudostig-mata forward to mid-line betweeen scutal setae, small; pseudostig-matic organs capitate, flask-shaped, the stem moderately long, the enlarged head clothed in minute setules; ocular shield placed its own close to scutum, level with the pseudostigmata, anterior eye the larger. Body setae stout, strongly pilose to pectinate, eighty-four to eighty-six in number; on dorsum forty-four, arranged ap-proximately in row as follows: 12:8:8:6:8:2; on venter the anterior setae shorter and more strongly pectinate than the posterior. Fore-leg, mean L 256 μ; leg setae mainly pectinate or plumose, coxal setae single, strongly pectinate or plumose. Length 0.245 (unengorged) to 0.324 mm. (engorged); width 0.152 (unen-gorged) to 0.245 mm. (engorged).Type host: Gallus gallus domesticus Briss. Localities: Formosa Hayashidamura, Horin, Yoshinomura, Karenko, Taito, Dakusui, Sozan, Chohokuto, Robai, Hokuto, Shirin, Taihoku, Shinten, Tai-heirin, Sekitei, Mokusaku, Seifuku, Shinchiku, Simpo, Kansai.). Type and nineteen paratypes in Taihoku Imperial University Mu-seum, Taihoku. Taiwan (Formosa).Described from numerous specimens from the skin under the wings of the type host. Also found on Passer montanus tivanensis HARTERT, Taihoku, 4. iii. 26 (by the writer), Caprimulgus affinis monticola FRANKLIN, Corvus coronoides colonorum SWINHOE (Corvus macrorhynchus SEEBOHM of Dr. Hatori), Alcedo atthis japonica Bo-NAPARTE and Centropus bengalensis lignator SWINHOE (Centropus javanicus DUMONT of Dr. Hatori) (by Dr. J. Hatori).