臺灣自一八九五年至一九四五年，共被日本統治五十年之久。日本人在臺灣的統治利用了許多不同的統治策略，進行了對臺灣社會從上到下的監控。在這五十年的統治過程中，日本人主要利用了警察與保甲制度，吸收了臺灣本地的菁英，將之納為日本人在臺統治的地方代理者。同時，也適時的消弭了許多可能發生的反抗殖民者運動。 本篇文章的寫作主要是透過後殖民論述（postcoloniality）來檢視日治時期日本人在臺的殖民統治策略。所謂的殖民與後殖民最大的不同在於，後殖民學者最關心的核心內涵是「被殖民者的身份是一種建構，是一種經由武力征服和文化移植雙重手段而完成的過程。」而後殖民論者所強調的，也正是如何從過去及現在的歷史經驗中尋找和發現屬於自身文化的特殊性。 因此，本篇文章試圖藉由後殖民的一些概念，如他者（theother） 、混雜（hybridity）、內部殖民（internal coloniality），來檢視日治時期日人在臺統治策略的後殖民意涵，期盼能對日治時期臺灣史給予一個超越史學的不同解讀。

From 1895 to 1945, Taiwan was governed by Japan totaling fifty years. Japanese monitored Taiwanese society through various kinds of colonial strategies. During this period, they recruited the Taiwanese elite as local monitoring agents mainly using the police and Pao-Jia institution. Meanwhile, the Japanese also eliminated large numbers of revolutionary movements and revolutions. This report examines Japanese policy and management during the period of Japanese government through postcolonial discourses. The most obvious difference between “colonization” and “postcoloniality” lies in the core content. For the core content post-colonial scholars, “the identity of the colonized is a kind of construction and a sort of outcome made by military force and culture-transfer”. Post-colonial scholars put emphasis on how to find the specification of self-culture through the experience of the past history. Furthermore, this report examines the meaning of post-colonization during the period that Japan governed through such concepts, as “the other”, “hybridity” and “internal coloniality”. The purpose of this report is to give a different explanation for the historical period of the Japanese government of Taiwan.