Taichū Prefecture

{{Short description|Prefecture of Taiwan under Japanese rule}}

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{{Infobox former subdivision

| native_name = {{nobold|台中州 (臺中州)}}

| conventional_long_name = Taichū Prefecture

| common_name = Taichū

| subdivision = Prefecture

| nation = Empire of Japan

| status_text = Taichū-shū

| capital = Taichung

| life_span = 1920–1952

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| image_map = Er nd 1013 Taichung.jpg

| image_map_caption = The Taichū Prefecture government building now serves as the Taichung city government building.

| era = {{nowrap|Taiwan under Japanese rule}}

| year_start = 1920

| date_end = 25 October

| year_end = 1945

| date_post = 28 April 1952

| event_post = Treaty of San Francisco

| stat_year1 = 1941

| stat_area1 =

| stat_pop1 = 1,380,187

| political_subdiv = 2 cities (市)
11 district (郡)

| today = Taichung, Changhua County, Nantou County

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File:1925 Taichu Shu.svg

{{Nihongo|Taichū Prefecture|台中州|Taichū-shū}} was one of the administrative divisions of Japanese Taiwan. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Taichung City, Changhua County and Nantou County. It is also the origin of the name of modern-day Taichung. The Taichū Prefecture was the scene of the 1930 Musha Incident, the last major uprising against colonial Japanese forces in Japanese Taiwan.{{cite book

| last = Morris

| first = A.D.

| title = Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

| publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing

| series = SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

| year = 2015

| isbn = 978-1-4725-7674-3

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jqwKCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT195

| access-date = 17 April 2019

| page = 195

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