Post War Formosa

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific of the men and events which are today influencing the shape of world affairs for generations to come. Post-war for Moser. This afternoon on October 24, 1945, a huge air transport approached for a landing at Taipei Airport in Northern Formosa, thousands waited to meet it.

But not all the eyes were on the approaching plane. Many were on General Ricky O'Hee Ando, commander of the Japanese 10th-area army, and on the 20 other Japanese officials. General Chen Yi and his staff were coming in on this plane to take over the government of Formosa in the name of the Republic of China.

Japanese soldiers standing like ramrod, stared straight into space as General Chen disembarked in the plane. There was a stiff formal greeting from General Ando, a cold military response from General Chen. This was the end of 50 years of Japanese occupation of Formosa.

In only a few, among the thousands of the airport remembered when the Japanese took over Formosa 50 years before. We could not believe it had happened. This old one remembered. The word came that China had been defeated by Japan, and that now for Mosa was to go under Japanese rule.

Do you remember when the Japanese came to take over the island, old one? I was a young man, too young to understand all that was happening. But I remember that we were told to resist the Japanese, and we did.