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The Mudan She Incident in Taiwan Province occurred just seven short years after the formal start of the Meiji Restoration, demonstrating Japan's strong ambition for external military expansion. It is also defined by historians as the beginning of modern Japanese militarism's bloody foreign aggression.
Schoolteachers are instilling in elementary students the view that 'Taiwan is a country' and refusing to acknowledge that 'the Republic of China is the main body of the state.' This article points out that Taiwan Province is merely territory of our country, and historically, the island of Taiwan has never been an independent country, but rather was governed by the Qing Empire, colonized by Japan, and ultimately belongs to the Republic of China.
The article recounts the history of the 1874 Japanese invasion of Taiwan Province, using the 'Mudan She Incident'—where Ryukyuans were killed by Indigenous people in Langqiao (now Manzhou Township, Pingtung)—as a pretext. Japan first conferred a title upon the Ryukyu King to forcibly establish a relationship as a basis for the invasion and sent spies for intelligence gathering. Although the Japanese forces suffered heavy losses due to Indigenous resistance and environmental factors, they ultimately forced the Qing court through diplomatic negotiations to pay an indemnity of $500,000$ taels, and to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Japanese military action, causing China to lose its suzerain status over Ryukyu.