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Issue No. No. 42 
Title The Governmental System Reformation in the Railway Department of the Traffic Bureau of the General Governor of Taiwan (1937-1945) 
Author Tsai Lung-pao 
Page 297-326  
Abstract   The Railway Department of the Traffic Bureau of the General Governor of Taiwan was one of the important sections in the colonial government. It deep affected political, economical, social, cultural development of the colony Taiwan. The China-Japan War breaking out in 1937, the contention that should improve the organization of traffic and integrate the administration of traffic was proposed again. In 1943, the Traffic Bureau of the General Governor of Taiwan performed governmental system reformation, established the Marine Department, Kaohsiung and Keelung Harbor Bureau, and the Railway Office of the Railway Department to reinforce transportation in wartime. Separating the administration of the Railway Department to work and design and changing the centralization to decentralization in order to promote the efficiency. The Railway Department imitated the experience of Japan Railway and Korea Railway to perform the reform of organ and personnel. After reforming organ, the Railway Department became specialization and professionalization, intensified the decentralization and established a lot of new departments to correspond to the current affairs. After reforming personnel, adopted many hannninnkann staff, practiced the regulation of koutuusyu in 1939, made the ratio of full-time and part-time staff more practical, and the adoption of staff became professionalization. Besides, increasing many staff of the Railway Department in order to correspond to fit out materials, propel the new railway construction, perform the plan of transportation expansion and so on. In short, the Railway Department imitated the experiences Japan Railway and Korea Railway, re-established a high efficient department by performing the reform of organ and personnel so as to correspond to the system in wartime. It solved the problems of organ and personnel by frequent reforms in the short time, and tried to play the role in supporting the war. 
Keyword Japanese-ruled Period, Railway, War period, Traffic and Transportation, a System of Government, the General Governor of Taiwan  
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