Citations:Taihoku

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English citations of Taihoku

Map of eastern Taipei (labeled as TAIHOKU) and surrounding region (AMS, 1944)
  • 1897 June 9, “Oriental News”, in The Daily Colonist[1], volume LXXVII, number 153, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
    Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan.
  • 1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present[2], page 423:
    Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose.
  • 1966 May 14, “Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta”, in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files[3], page 17:
    The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.
  • 2018 May 24, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office”, in Taiwan News[4]:
    The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.