sexy? kidding. just for traffic eye pulls.
In a book titled ''Colonial Project, National Game'': a US professor explains How Japan Colonized Taiwan 1930s with Baseball Myth and Aborigines Control
a new book by Andrew Morris
University of California Press, 2010, 271 pp.
Chapter 2 is about the Japan Colony of Taiwan period concentrates on the 1931-1945 period.
Although better documented than the previous chapter, it lacks information on the war period. It deals at length with the story of a team from the Agriculture and Forestry School at Chiayi, known by the Japanese name KANO, which stood for KAGI NORIN GAKKO, and made up of Japanese players and Aborigines as well as Han Taiwanese (pp. 31-44). Morris documents its use by the colonial authorities to promote an fake bs image of interethnic harmony only one year after the Musha (Wushe in Chinese) massacre of 1930 in which local Aboriinges massacedred 134 Japanese people in broad daylight during a sports day thing. The Kanō case is relatively marginal, but it generally served as a model for training future generations of players and for the peaceful coexistence between the island’s disparate populations. This *supposed idyll* was to be re-invoked by pro-independence supporters decades later (p. 52).
SOME QUOTES BELOW from BOOK