Towards for Quantitative Analysis of Official Document Catalog of the Government-General of Formosa

Abstract

　The official documents of the government-general of Formosa is the Official document collection of Japanese government about Taiwan before the Second World War. The documents are preserved in favorable condition, and were published openly, although the official documents of Japanese government in that time have not been published openly. Therefore, those are available for research uses and are very scarce historical documents. Though those documents have been digitized continuously in Chukyo University, the already digitized catalog of those documents in Meiji era was utilized for quantitative analysis of chronological shift in administrative document in that time. As a result, other than human resources and notification and regulations in the government office, most frequent category was about hygiene. Especially cowpox and cholera were mentioned frequently.