As for the Chinese-language education, I do not have much information with me now. But if I remember correctly, many schools abandoned Chinese language education in the last decade of Japanese colonialism, and that is partly why the number of Japanese teachers increased.

The year, 1986, must be correct since Izawa was in Taiwan only around that time.

Great topic and interesting posts….but as I recall Tsurumi wrote on the extensive parallel system of purely Chinese-language education, in which there were no Japanese teachers, so that this comment on the rising number of teachers from Japan would not apply there. Is my memory going bad in my dotage?

Also, is there a mistake in the dates here? Shouldn’t it be 1905 or something?

Zhishanyan was a place where Izawa Shūji built one of the first Japanese schools in Taipei in 1985. In January 1986, while Izawa was visiting Japan, an anti-Japanese militant group attacked the school and killed six Japanese teachers. This became a symbol of nationalistic passion and sacrifice among Japanese educators in Taiwan.

Michael