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Japanese soldier executing an Atayal tribe fighter with a katana during their military repression in Taroko, Imperial Japan occupied Taiwan, 1914 FYl during Imperial Japan's occupation of the island of Taiwan (1895 - 1945), one of the biggest headaches they encountered was the resistance of the indigenous tribes, one of the reasons were due to these tribes mostly living deep the mountains, which makes traveling and navigating for the Japanese forces very hard. Therefore, the Japanese later on deployed the strategy of utilizing the conflicts between these tribes to have them hunt each other themselves and later conquer them all. The Tapani incident or Tapani uprising in 1915 was one of the biggest armed uprisings by Taiwanese Han and Aboriginals, including Taivoan, against Japanese rule in Taiwan. Alternative names used to refer to the incident include the Xilai Temple Incident after the Xilai Temple in Tainan, where the revolt began, and the Yu Qingfang Incident after the leader Yu...