Japan's Decision to Annex Taiwan
A Study of Itō-Mutsu Diplomacy, 1894–95
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8996803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward I-Te Chen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-72 |
| Publication date | 1977-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2053328 |
| OpenAlex | W2125208175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 1 |
At the conclusion of the war in 1895, Japan acquired two territories from China: Liaotung Peninsula and Taiwan, including the islands of Penghu. (Hereafter Taiwan will denote the main island of Taiwan and the Penghus.) It is easy to understand why Japan annexed Liaotung: because of its proximity to Korea. But why was she interested in annexing Taiwan, located more than a thousand miles away from the principal battlefield and more than half of it controlled by headhunting aboriginal tribes? According to the conventional interpretation, Japan's decision on the annexation was based on consideration of two factors: (1) the island's potential as a new market, and as a supplier of food and raw materials for the rapidly expanding Japanese capitalism and labor forces and (2) its military value as a stepping-stone for future expansion in south China and southeast Asia. Implicit in such views is the assumption that Japan had planned the annexation long before the war—perhaps as early as 1874, when a Japanese expeditionary force briefly occupied a part of the island
Ancient history · Annexation · Archaeology · Battlefield · China · Diplomacy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy · Peninsula · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Politics and mobilization in Japan, 1931–1945
Socialism, liberalism, and Marxism, 1901–1931
Depression, recovery, and war, 1920–1945
The Japanese colonial empire, 1895–1945
Japanese revolt against the West
Continental expansion, 1905–1941
The Myth of “One China”
The Japanese Empire
The Cambridge History of Japan
The offense‐defense balance, interdependence, and war
The Bureaucratization of the State and the Rise of Japan
Assimilation, Association, and French Advice to Japan on How to Rule Taiwan
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2019 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |