In Anping, with its increasingly silted harbor, the Japanese constructed a system of canals, and the town of Takou rose during the colonial period from a sleepy little backwater to become Kaohsiung, the number-one city in the south. The Japanese intended for this "new-style city," typical of the cities they developed in Taiwan, to play a big part in their plans for southward conquest.
在南部，日人在日愈淤積的安平港開鑿運河，高雄更是日據時代開發的典型「新市鎮」。懷抱征服亞洲野心的日本，疏浚高雄港作為南進基地，只有零星部落的打狗，終於由港而市，商行集結，躍升為南部熠熠明星。