After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The Japanese categorized the indigenous people according to the range of their settlements, into the divisions takasago-zoku and heiho-zoku (later translated into Chinese as "Pingpu").
甲午戰爭後台灣割讓給日本，日本人則根據他們的聚居地再歸類為「高砂族」和「平埔族」，前者住在山區，後者則多居平地。