There are Many Japanese Era Houses and Buildings Here...

...similar to this one admittedly unimpressive example.

The Land Where it's Already Tomorrow: Chapter 23, A Short (and Safer) Cut, An Art Show in Colonial Japan, Gassed by a Tinker, Our Aim Shall be to Found a Free Land, The Sword in the Stone, More Bacchanalia

December 15th 2006
We took advantage of a break in the rain (Saturday afternoon, evening, and night were a series of intermittent downpours) to go into the city on Sunday morning. We discovered a back road short cut to church. The route completely avoids Hwy 9 north of Hualien City, with its semi-trailers loaded with marble and its cement trucks hurtling by a top speed. In the afternoon we bumped into my sideki ... read more

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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more

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