This book illuminates Japan's colonial administration at work in general, and the role of Taiwan in the context of Japan's colonial empire-making in particular.

Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai is associate research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Introduction Part 1: Law, Order, And Colonial Governance 1. Rule by Law 2. The Emperor's Civil Servants 3. The Police as Lord Part 2: Colonial Engineering 4. Colonial Governmentality 5. Social Engineering 6. Creating the Local Part 3: War, Mobilization, And Legacy 7. The Emperor's "Little Babies" 8. Bringing War back into the History 9. Politics of Memory and History. Conclusion