英文摘要
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The introduction of new communication means of telephone from Japan to Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period was formally opened for common people to subscribe to in 1900. As seen from the yearly increase in telephone subscribers and those who failed in their applications, the year around 1919 seemed to be a watershed as far as Taiwan's Government-General was concerned. As Japan's domestic telephone business available to the common people had first started much early in 1890, it was natural that Taiwan's later colonial telephone subscribers and the applicable law should in many ways have followed the patterns in Japan, as witnessed in what Taiwan's Government-General's one-time attempt to so copy them , without paying much attention to the quite difference in the phrases of development in the two territories. In comparison with those cases in Japan, it could be said that Taiwan's Government-General took a more negative attitude towards the subscription and expansion of telephones by the common people in Taiwan.
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