Mission Schools in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule

2003年，我在台湾和加拿大调查了历史资料。在台湾，我收集了有关台南长老会中学的资料。在加拿大，我在加拿大长老会档案馆中查阅有关淡水中学的资料。2004年，我对美国国务院十月档案、长老会历史学会的文献进行了研究，并在《现代教育论坛》上发表了一篇论文。因为我意识到在台湾的英国使命学校和在韩国的美国使命学校的情况是相互关联的。我调查了伦敦国家档案馆中的英国政府外交部记录和海军上将办公室记录。这一研究是必要的，因为事实证明，反对英国使命学校的运动与日本和英国政府之间的军事和政治紧张局势的增长密切相关。英国船主被日本军官以间谍罪逮捕的事件，显示了1935年前后殖民地台湾反英运动的兴起。通过这些研究，笔者澄清了20世纪30年代日本本土、台湾和韩国的反使命学校运动，是由参拜问题引起的，我还在《青年日本研究》中发表了一篇关于帝国主义研究方法论的论文，其中强调了从整体的角度分析西方帝国主义和日本帝国主义的必要性。

In 2003 I investigated historical materials at Taiwan and Canada. In Taiwan I gathered materials concerning Tainan Presbyterian Middle School. In Canada I researched materials concerning Tansui Middle School at the Archives of Presbyterian Church in Canada. And also I analyzed the dissertation written by Lin Mosei, head-teacher of Tainan Presbyterian Middle School, and published a paper in Forum on Modern Education.In 2004 I made a research on he Decimal Files of the State Department of USA, and the documents of the Presbyterian Historical Society, because I realized that the situation around British mission schools in Taiwan was interrelated those around American mission schools in Korea.In 2005 I investigated the Foreign Office Records and the Admiral Office Records of the British Government at the national archives, London. This research is needed because it turns out that the movement against British mission schools was closely connected with the growth of military and political tension between Japanese and British governments. Such an incident that the owner of the British vessel was arrested in charge of committing espionage by Japanese military officers indicates that anti-British movement was uplifted in colonial Taiwan around 1935.Through these researches, I clarified that the movements against mission schools in Japan proper, Taiwan and Korea in the 1930s, that was caused through Shrine attendance problem, were closely connected with each other and published papers in Rikkyo Gakuinshi Kenkyu and Iwazamikoza Asian-Pacific War, vol.4.I have also published a paper about the methodology of studying Imperialism in Nenpo Nihongendaishi, in which I have stressed the necessity of analyzing Western and Japanese Imperialism in the integrated perspective.