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Among Gotô's many reforms was the revival of a traditional Chinese village system known as ''bǎojiǎ'' (保甲, J: ''hokô''), which was used to maintain the peace alongside the official police system, as well as for a variety of local administrative tasks, including information gathering, the search and seizure of those suspected of planning uprisings, and as militias. While this was not expanded to other parts of the empire, Japanese officials drew upon the experiment with the ''baojia'' system in Taiwan to later appropriate or make use of traditional leadership structures in other regions.<ref name=peattie2728/>

Among Gotô's many reforms was the revival of a traditional Chinese village system known as ''bǎojiǎ'' (保甲, J: ''hokô''), which was used to maintain the peace alongside the official police system, as well as for a variety of local administrative tasks, including information gathering, the search and seizure of those suspected of planning uprisings, and as militias. While this was not expanded to other parts of the empire, Japanese officials drew upon the experiment with the ''baojia'' system in Taiwan to later appropriate or make use of traditional leadership structures in other regions.<ref name=peattie2728/>

[[State Shinto]] was expanded to Taiwan, with the [[Grand Shrine of Taiwan]] being established in [[1901]].

[[State Shinto]] was expanded to Taiwan, with the [[Grand Shrine of Taiwan]] being established in [[1901]]. This was the first ''[[kanpei taisha]]'' to be established overseas; in total, over 200 [[Shinto shrines]] were established in Taiwan during the colonial period.<ref>Mitsuhashi Takeshi and Sugahara Koji, "Kaigai jinja," ''Nihon no jinja'' 73. Translated on blog [https://thekojiki.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/overseas-shinto/ 天地間に Between Heaven and Earth.</ref>

Scholars such as [[Torii Ryuzo|Torii Ryûzô]] and [[Yanagi Soetsu|Yanagi Sôetsu]] began to expound on the connections between Taiwan (particularly the aboriginal cultures) and Japan. Yanagi emphasized the connections, his ''[[mingei]]'' theory suggesting Taiwan, along with [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Colonial Korea|Korea]], and [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]], as storehouses of traditional culture, where that which has been lost in the modernization process in mainland Japan can still be seen; meanwhile, however, archaeologists and anthropologists like Torii found that the Okinawans and Ainu had more in common with the Japanese people than with the Taiwanese. Both of these theories, in different ways, were cited in support of Japanese colonial activities, and cultural assimilation policies, throughout the Empire.

Scholars such as [[Torii Ryuzo|Torii Ryûzô]] and [[Yanagi Soetsu|Yanagi Sôetsu]] began to expound on the connections between Taiwan (particularly the aboriginal cultures) and Japan. Yanagi emphasized the connections, his ''[[mingei]]'' theory suggesting Taiwan, along with [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Colonial Korea|Korea]], and [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]], as storehouses of traditional culture, where that which has been lost in the modernization process in mainland Japan can still be seen; meanwhile, however, archaeologists and anthropologists like Torii found that the Okinawans and Ainu had more in common with the Japanese people than with the Taiwanese. Both of these theories, in different ways, were cited in support of Japanese colonial activities, and cultural assimilation policies, throughout the Empire.