The Bloody History of the Shaw Ridge Street Incident: The Imperial Japanese Army's Massacre of the Taiwanese People

This article recounts the major massacre known as the 'Shaw Ridge Street Incident' (present-day Jiali District, Tainan) that occurred in $1895$ during the Japanese Imperial Guards Division's occupation of Tainan Prefecture. After fierce fighting with the Taiwanese volunteer army, rumors of a prince being killed or the cries of children exposing their location led the Japanese troops to open machine-gun fire on fleeing civilians hiding in ditches (house-side trenches), resulting in approximately two to three thousand victims and turning Shaw Ridge Street into a 'City of the Wrongfully Dead'.