Abstract
With focusing on Taiwan’s position in “Southern Expansion” of the Japanese empire, this paper traces the history of forestry policy of the Government General of Taiwan and the development of scientific researches of the forestry experiment stations in colonial Taiwan under the Japanese rule, and make clear characteristics of forest management by the Japanese empire forestry. With regard to the forestry policy, camphor production in Fujian Province of southern China and the management of camphor tree in the reservation area of indigenous people were closely related with each other, and the “forest survey” for defining the ownership of forest area in colonial Taiwan was very strict and most of the forest in Taiwan was classified as national forest. With regard to the scientific researches of the forestry experiment stations, many researchers made experimental researches on plantation and forest production of tropical forest resource to meet the demand of Japanese empire along with the intensification of the Asian-Pacific War.
