Taichū Prefecture

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Taichū Prefecture 台中州 (臺中州)
Taichū-shū
1920-1952
The Taichū Prefecture government building now serves as the Taichung city government building.
Capital	Taichung
Population
• 1941	1,380,187
Historical era	Taiwan under Japanese rule
• Established	1920
• Disestablished	25 October 1945
• Treaty of San Francisco	28 April 1952
Political subdivisions	2 cities (市) 11 district (郡)
Today part of	Taichung, Changhua County, Nantou County

Taichū Prefecture (台中州, Taichū-shū) was one of the administrative divisions of Japanese Taiwan. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Taichung City, Changhua County and Nantou County. It is also the origin of the name of modern-day Taichung. The Taichū Prefecture was the scene of the 1930 Musha Incident, the last major uprising against colonial Japanese forces in Japanese Taiwan.^[1]

Population statistics of permanent residents in Taichū Prefecture in 1941:

In 1945 (Shōwa 20), there were 2 cities and 11 districts.

The districts are divided into towns (街) and villages (庄)

• Political divisions of Taiwan (1895–1945)
• Governor-General of Taiwan
• Taiwan under Japanese rule
• Administrative divisions of the Republic of China