A celebration of growth and abundance captured in 1940s Kaohsiung, Taiwan. On August 5, 1940 (Showa 15 / 昭和十五年), little Nami (南美) posed for her second birthday (Man nisai / 滿二才) alongside her family and their remarkably towering home-grown bananas (Ie no Banana / 家のバナナ). This portrait, printed by the prestigious Tabata Photo Studio (田端寫真館), stands as a tender record of a thriving household and the simple, monumental pride of a backyard harvest.
- 中村輝夫（Nakamura Teruo）：最後的殘留日本兵與帝國主義問題
Beatrice Trefalt
1974年12月18日清晨，在印尼摩羅泰島（Morotai）一處偏遠地區，一小隊印尼士兵包圍了一塊空地，空地上有一間小屋與一塊小田地。一名全裸男子從小屋中走出。士兵們從叢林中前進，一邊高唱日本國歌《君之代》，一邊包圍那名極度消瘦且明顯驚恐的人影。他一動不動，未對「逮捕」做出任何抵抗。當日上午八點十五分，隊伍領導者以無線電向上級回報：「任務完成」。這是《サンデー毎日》（Sandee mainichi）在一個月後對這起事件的描述——即對日本帝國陸軍最後一名已知殘留兵的拘捕。
時年五十五歲的中村輝夫，在盟軍於1944年9月15日首次進攻該島前數個月，便已抵達摩羅泰。被發現時，他已二十年未曾見過其他人類，最後一次見到其他殘留兵約在1953至1954年間。在被「逮捕」當時，中村似乎並不知道戰爭已經結束，並在接下來數日持續處於對生命安全的恐懼之中。
Two Chinese Women's Army Corps (WACs) members and a former POW gaze at a portrait of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at the "Peach Gardens" (桃園) reception camp in Formosa (Taiwan), April 1954. The inscription beneath the portrait calls for the liberation of mainland China from Communist rule. Some 14,500 Chinese Korean War prisoners who refused repatriation to the mainland were resettled here following the 1953 armistice. (United Press, April 16, 1954)
Prewar match label "Must be fully paid before the deadline / Paying taxes is one of the three major duties of citizens." Itabashi-shō (板橋庄), Taiwan