A Study Note on the Education in the Colonial Dependencies: Focusing on Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan

斉藤 泰雄

doi:10.34577/00004280

This article is a study note on the education in the colonial dependencies, focusing on the Japanese colonial education in Taiwan. Japanese colonial authority proclaimed that the assimilation of Taiwanese and promotion of Japanese language was the main goal of Japanese educational policy. Although Japanese educational effort was faced with difficult problem, gradually the islanders began to accept Japanese-style schooling. The Taiwan educational ordinance of 1919 established a single, coordinated education system for them. However, Taiwanese pressure for advanced schooling became increasingly difficult to resist. Despaired of the limited opportunity in Taiwan, some rich families began sending their children to Japan. In 1922, the new education ordinance was promulgated which declared to abolish the separatism and discriminatory treatment in education and establish full equality of opportunity between Taiwanese and Japanese. It named the common schools as institution for non-Japanese-speaking children and the primary schools for Japanese-speaking children regardless of race. On the higher levels of the educational system all schools were to be governed henceforth by the same educational orders which regulated their counterparts in Japan. Taihoku Imperial University and a preparatory higher school were also established. The enrollment ratio of the native children became to be considerably high. In the final stage of the colonial period, the colonial authority decided to inaugurate compulsory education in Taiwan. Japanese colonial education policy began to assume a unique feature that was different from Western powers.

A Study Note on the Education in the Colonial Dependencies: Focusing on Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan

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