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Akashi Motojirô served in a number of colonial administration positions, including most prominently as [[Governor-General of Taiwan]] from 1918 to 1919. He was known as an iron-fisted authoritarian, who imposed assimilationist policies not aimed at gradually easing people into the fold, nor at extending the rights and freedoms of Japanese citizenship to the [[Taiwan]]ese, but rather forcing adherence to Japanese ideology upon the Taiwanese at a time when Wilsonian ideas of self-determination for all peoples were beginning to seep into many corners of the globe.<br />
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He had previously served in [[Colonial Korea]], as both a military policeman and administrator, during which he acquired a reputation for ruthlessness.<br />
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==References==<br />
*[[Mark Peattie]], "Japanese Attitudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 104.<br />
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