| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to elucidate Kaneko Kitamura's ideological relationship with Lin Xian-Tang and his circle through collecting and analyzing the articles reflecting feminism published in Taiwan People's News.
The process of collecting materials, articles on feminism, was completed before September 2004, and analyses were made by the end of September of the same year. During the August 2004 research trip to Taipei, I obtained documents on the parties who were actively involved in the cultural movement and nationalist movement such as Lin Xian-Tang, Lin Pan-Long, Lin Xiong-Zheng, Cai A-Xin, Peng Hua-Ying, Chen Xin, Lin Jie-Tang and Gao Tian-Cheng. The documents revealed concrete evidence of these individuals' personal relationship with Kitamura, who devoted her attention to the welfare and true happiness of the Taiwanese under the rule of Japan. In August, additional documents on Women's Daily Newspaper Taipei Edition were added to the collection. In October, I completed the
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collection of articles from Taiwan Daily News relevant to this study while pursuing bibliographic research on Taiwan People's News. During the documentary search trip to Taipei, Taichung and Tainan that I took in December, I collected articles on Kaneko Kitamura from Tainan News, and I consulted (browsed, inspected, viewed) the documents archived by Lin family in Wufeng. In late January of 2005, I visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to access documents on Lin Xian-Tang, Cai Pei-Huo and Peng Hua-Ying in the Diplomatic Record Office. During this visit, I analyzed the methods employed by Japanese authorities in carrying out the surveillance of Taiwanese activists involved in the Cultural Movement and Nationalist Movement.
I followed my original research plan by conducting additional research in Taipei, Taichung, Tanan and Kaohsiung in August of 2005. This research disclosed evidence that concretized the ideologies and movements of the women who visited Taiwan with Kitamura as speakers for the Conference on Cultural Lectures for Women. These speakers include Hanayo Ikuta, Fumiko Hayashi, Yasuko Yamada, Yuriko Mochizuki and Kadoe Horie among others. Furthermore, I analyzed the collected documents on Lin Xian-Tang, Peng Hua-Ying and Cai A-Xin. At the same time, I surveyed articles on feminism published in Taiwanese Yough, Taiwan as well as articles reflecting nationalism in Taiwan People's News. The results of the research established reason to conclude that there was a close relationship between feminism articles in Taiwan People's News and Taiwanese nationalist movement. The research also confirmed the ideological and emotional trajectories of the Taiwanese who studied at universities and technical schools in Japan. Less
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