According to the analysis of historian Wang Shih-lang, the Japanese rule of Taiwan can be divided into three periods. From the end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 until 1918, it was a period of pacification when the Japanese exerted severe military pressure and pacified the people.
根據史學者王師琅的分析，日本統治台灣約可分為三期，從一八九五年甲午戰敗，到一九一八年為武力鎮壓、安撫人民的「綏撫期」。