The Japanese put an end to it In 1895, in accordance with the treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese formally occupied Taiwan, and after they gradually quelled resistance to their rule in the plains, beginning in 1906 they embarked on nearly ten years of "pacification" and "management" of Taiwan's aboriginal peoples.
西元一八九五年，日人以「馬關條約」正式佔據有台灣。在平地的反抗勢力逐一被敉平之後，從一九○六年開始，第五任總督佐久間左馬太針對島上的「番人」，展開了近十年的「撫番」和「理番」工作。