For both Han Chinese and indigenous peoples, the Japanese were clearly a colonial regime. This is reflected in the fact that the selection of the governor followed not local concerns, but political trends in Japan proper.
不管對漢人或是原住民族來說，日本是個不折不扣的殖民政權，其統治台灣的行政長官產生背景，和日本政府當時的政策步調是一致的。