Japanese population of Taiwan during occupation?

Strategos' Risk

Taiwan has a rich and diverse history- aboriginal peoples, the Hakka, and exiled Han from both the Ming and the Kuomintang. However, it also seems like the expulsion of the Japanese after WWII was total upon retrocession of the island to the R.O.C. Granted, the removal of all Japanese cultural and political influence would be natural after the very bitter and brutal war they had just fought (not to mention half of century of humiliation under their colonizers). However, was there any substantial Japanese population that had lived in Taiwan during the occupation? Besides colonial administrator types?

And if not, what if there had been enough to sustain a Nisei/Sansei type population in Taiwan?
 

Kou Gakei

Banned
At the end of war, total Japanese population in Taiwan was about 488,000, including 166,000 soldiers. Originally, there were about 200,000 Japanese who expressed desires to stay in Taiwan, but due to both pressure from KMT and general social disorder, by March of 1946 all Japanese wished to be repatriated. In the end, 460,000 Japanese were repatriated, including military personnel. Each person was only allowed to carry 1,000 yens in cash, foods for consumption on the way, and two backpacks of personal belongings. Practically all properties, material or immaterial, which they had built up working hard for half century, were left behind. About 28,000 technicians and teachers were retained in Taiwan by Kuomintang regime for their expertise.
 

zert

Well if any Japanese stayed behind I will wonder how they escaped retribution from the Chinese. The Japanese were just a little mean to the Chinese
 

Strategos' Risk

With no doubt the KMT would have wanted to exact revenge against the Japanese. However, the local Taiwanese had a more ambiguous relationship towards them. Was there any intermarriage between the two populations prior to 1945? Or was that something the Showa racial theorists wanted to prevent?
 

Simreeve

So quite a few of those 'Japanese' shipped "back" to Japan post-War would actually have been part-Chinese?
 

Simreeve

Was there any noticeable prejudice against them amongst "pure-blooded" Japanese, because of this factor, once they'd resettled?
 

Sharunaku

Simreeve said:
Was there any noticeable prejudice against them amongst "pure-blooded" Japanese, because of this factor, once they'd resettled?
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I don't think there's much discrimination if one has/adopts a Japanese surname, speak like a Japanese and live like a Japanese. Probably more like having a non-British European parent than having a Hispanic or African parent in the US.

And since even a pure Korean and a pure Taiwanese can do so well, I guess the discrimination against half-bloods is really minor.
 

katchen

Banned
The Koreans and part Koreans, even though Japanese in everything but identity documents are discriminated against terribly in Japan and make up the nucleus of the Yakuza gangsters. I have never heard about the part Chinese Taiwanese though. Any Japanese on the list who know for sure?
 

elkarlo

Banned
katchen said:
The Koreans and part Koreans, even though Japanese in everything but identity documents are discriminated against terribly in Japan and make up the nucleus of the Yakuza gangsters. I have never heard about the part Chinese Taiwanese though. Any Japanese on the list who know for sure?
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Good question. Let me look into it. I met some Taiwanese in Taiwan who've never been to Japan, but had excellent Japanese
 
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