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12019-11-18T17:20:14-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f351Taiwan Government-General Library; Taiwan sōtokufu toshokanplain2019-11-18T17:20:14-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Taiwan Government-General Library (Taiwan sōtokufu toshokan), just like its counterpart in Seoul, the Korea Government-General Library (Chōsen sōtokufu toshokan), had the following three goals: 1) to collect the information necessary for managing the colony; 2) to provide services to the Japanese settler community; and 3) to contribute to imperialization (kōminka) policies of "Japanizing" the colonized population (Katō et al, Nihon no shokuminchi toshokan, 14, 81. Kawata Ikohi, “Ajia shinryaku to Chōsen Sōtokufu Toshokan (3),” Jōkyō to shutai, no. 142 (1987): 130.). The usefulness of the library to the colonized population was a secondary issue, entangled with the efforts to incorporate this population into the imperial community.
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