Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan.
1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present[2], page 423:
Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose.
1966 May 14, “Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta”, in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files[3], page 17:
The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.
2018 May 24, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office”, in Taiwan News[4]:
The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.
