Japanese Rules and Leadership
As settlement for losing the Sino-Japanese War, China ceded the entire island of Taiwan to Japan in 1895. After the Japanese takeover, Taipei, called Taihoku in Japanese, emerged as the political center of the Japanese Colonial Government. Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of Japanese rule, including the Presidential Building which was the Office of the Taiwan Governor-General (台灣總督府). During the Japanese rule, Taihoku was incorporated in 1920 as part of Taihoku Prefecture (台北州-Tai Bei Zhou). It included Bangka (艋舺-Meng Jia), Dadaocheng, and Chengnei among other small settlements. The eastern village Matsuyama (松山庄-Song Shan Zhuang) was annexed into Taihoku City in 1938.
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