| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中正大學 === 歷史研究所 === 103 === In Taiwan under Japanese rule, the forests were categorized into national forests, public forests and private forests. According to the records made by the Taiwan Government General in 1933, among all forests in Taiwan, the private forests accounted for around 10% (more than 250 thousands hectares), the public forests were less than twenty thousand hectares (0.79%), and the rest were national forests. In could be concluded that in Taiwan under Japanese rule, the forests resources were controlled by the Japanese government and must be subjected to the forestry policies.
After completing the land surveys of forests resources in mountainous areas, although the Japanese capitals were introduced, they were introduced as non-monopolistic due to the Aboriginals issues. Instead, the Forest Office managed the forests resources with national capitals. In the relationship between capital and industrial management, the aim to accumulate national capitals was to increase the revenues of the National Treasury. That was, with the government’s supports, the national-owned industries had formed a self-sufficient system and had became a monopoly regime, a controlling structure, and a government-owned with government-marketed industry or a government-owned with civilian-marketed industry.
In the first part of the thesis, I use the trading and forestry statistics in the Japanese ruling period to explain the issues of commodity compositions and networks. During the Japanese ruling period, the forest economy was a government-marketed system, which meant that the management and marketing of the wood commodities were both governed by the laws and regulations. The policy in some ways was sufficient to determine that if the Taiwanese forests fitted the concept of “productive industries” development in the Japanese ruling period, in order to clarify the purposes of the Taiwan Government General’s policy of “productive industries/ruling barbarians.”
In the second part, I focus on the government-run distribution center, mainly the Forest Office, which results in a special relationship between the national capitals and the civilian capitals. The civilian capitals depended on the national capital to develop, so it had formed a subtle correlation between the government and the private enterprises. The Japanese government encouraged the development of capitalism, thus changing and transforming the distributions of the national capitals, and I would argue that under this government-marketed structure, the selling relationships among the Forest Office, the designated agencies and the authorized distributors had developed a different operational structure.
With the study of the forestry trading and marketing during the Japanese rulng period, I would like to present a different perspective to further examine the Taiwanese people’s objectivity and subjectivity under Japanese rule, to bring more focuses on the local Taiwanese capitals when discussing the economic particularity of Taiwan under Japanese rule in the future.
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