Along with the advocacy begun from primary Meiji time of going aboard with great ambition considered to be solution of population boom and farm village poverty in Japan native land, colonization, precisely, cultivating for Japanese immigrants in Taiwan had weighed during Japan governance so that Taiwan Governor’s Office (Taiwan Sotokufu) had maintained constituting colonial and ruling policies to achieve it. Such a colonial processing represents parts of Taiwan economic transformation conditioned by original nature and previous society.
Taiwan Sotokufu in resonance with trendy economy and polity of native nation determined policies, on the other hand, different subtypes of colonial cultivation emerged from practical competition and corporation between capital structuring and labor serving. As a purpose to study the complicated phenomena overall, it is necessary to comb out the transiting access and order of information, intelligence, capital and techniques (labor service) between the official/civilian and the polity/economy. Land investing of colonial companies in 1900~1927 bricked with those elements above described is targeted and we could profile the colonial experience by observing the interaction of practical land funding and official policy planning
Land reclamation considered as achievement of Taiwan Sotokufu governance developed by progressive phases with trends of polity and economy of Taiwan island inside and outside, planned land allocation had not necessarily corresponded to navigation of practical labor and capital, for that, it is needed to discourse the divergence by two time buoys, 1900 and 1927, which stratify developing phases of land reclamation in primary period of Taiwan Sotokufu governance.
At 1900, the first sugar manufacturing company was established that means capitalists turned their attention to colony market and capital was eventually accommodated to policies, Taiwan Sotokufu related to capitalists from native nation in ambivalent way, they were competitive and cooperative. It implies that the economy of Taiwan as a colony became a part of Japan capitalistic reproduction. Situation changed to be different at 1927, lots of local and industrial banks bankrupted at Japan economic crisis time, consequently, lots of Taiwan colonial companies funded by native land banks were influenced. It constructs stratification and its meanings of primary Taiwan reclamation history by context of the two specific times.
In the process of stratifying, Taiwan Sotokufu with the right to entitle government land to be private intervened land merchandise market, by that, it attempted to reform Taiwan society and economy under the spatiotemporal changing.