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*''Date: [[1896]]''
*''Japanese'': 六三法 ''(rokusan hou)''

Law 63 was a law passed through the [[National Diet]] in [[1896]] which granted the [[Governor-General of Taiwan]] the power to generate new legislation for application within [[Taiwan]].

The passage of Law 63 generated considerable recurring opposition against it, chiefly among the more liberal members of the government, who deemed it unconstitutional, since the [[Meiji Constitution]] declared that only the Diet had law-making power. Eventually, the Law was modified, tempering the power of the Taiwanese Governor-General; however, the [[Governor-General of Korea]] retained these unilateral legislative powers.

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==References==
*[[Mark Peattie]], "Japanese Attitudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 101.

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