In April of 1896, the Japanese government set the structure of the colonial government. From the revisions they made every two years, you can see how the government's workload was swelling. Finding more room for the growing bureaucracy became one of its most pressing problems. Power and proximity The highest-ranking officials worked to the west of the Governor General's Office.
一八九六年四月，日本政府開始製定官制，由以後每隔兩年就修改一次的情況，就可看出為因應殖民地日益龐雜的事務，整個官僚體制正急速膨脹，如何為他們另尋空間，就成為殖民政府一個迫切的問題。