• S4-35 - FORMOSA 100 YEARS AGO: AMERICAN VISITORS IN JAPAN’S MODEL COLONY - DEC., 1924

  • Dec 19 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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S4-35 - FORMOSA 100 YEARS AGO: AMERICAN VISITORS IN JAPAN’S MODEL COLONY - DEC., 1924

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  • Harold and Alice Focht. He was an educator, she came along to keep him away from the geishas (well, some said). Hear how two middle-aged Americans saw Taiwan at, arguably, the peak of the Japanese colonial era.

    Lots of civilizing was on display – Asia’s longest bridge and the aboriginal show village of Kappanzan (beautiful modern-day Jiaobanshan). But happily, some local charms were also seen, including the unhealthy but persistent habit of chewing betel nuts, some minor disregarding of cleanliness, and local throngs gawking at big-footed Americans.

    As a bonus, Eryk and John give away two brilliant ideas for modern-day tourism related to rail pushcarts.
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