Taihoku

English thumb|Map of eastern Taipei (labeled as TAIHOKU) and surrounding region (Army Map Service AMS, 1944) Etymology From en ja - 台北 たいほく. Pronunciation en /taɪˈhəʊku/ /taɪˈhɒku/, tī-hōʹko͞o Proper noun en historical in reference to Japanese Taiwan en Taipei: the Japanese-derived name en National Taiwan University Taihoku Imperial University (original name of National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan) en June 09, 1897 Oriental News The Daily Colonist https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18970609uvic/ Victoria, British Columbia LXXVII 153 0839-4261 1115071851 8 https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18970609uvic/page/n7/ 4 Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00daviuoft/ 1903 The Formosan Camphor Industry The Island of Formosa Past and Present w:James W. Davidson 423 Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose. en February 16, 1946 China Foreign Commerce Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_international-commerce_1946-02-16_22_7/ Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce XXII 7 0097-3041 1950822 26 https://archive.org/details/sim_international-commerce_1946-02-16_22_7/page/26/ 2 Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/netaji/page/n17 1966-5-14 Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files 17 The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo. en 2018/05/24 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3439142 Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office Keoni Everington w:Taiwan News 2 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190901015019/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3439142 1 September 2019 The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII. en July 31, 2020 Sean Lin; Sherry Hsiao ‘Mr Democracy’ a man for his time https://web.archive.org/web/20200801013919/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/07/31/2003740872 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Front Page 1 Lee Teng-hui (zh 李登輝), who was born on Jan. 15, 1923, in the farming community of Sanshi Village, Taihoku Prefecture — now New Taipei City’s Sanzhi District (zh 三芝) — during the Japanese colonial era, and rose to become mayor of Taipei and not only the Republic of China’s (ROC) first Taiwan-born president, but its first directly elected one as well. en See also Other Japanese-derived geographical terms in East Asia: en Daido, en Daihoku, en Dairen, en Heijō, en Jinsen, en Kainei, en Keijō, en Saei, en Seisen, en Seishin, en Shiodome, en Shoka, en Taikokan, en Taito, en Takao Further reading Category:Formosa (Taiwan) 1:50,000 AMS Series L792 (Taiwan Maps using Japanese-derived Terminology), Wikimedia Commons