• Katakura Yoshifumi

    Japanese writer living in Taiwan. Born in 1969 in Kanagawa Prefecture. First traveled to Taiwan as a student at Waseda University’s School of Education. After graduation, joined the publishing and education company now known as Benesse. Has lived and worked in Taiwan since 1997 as a writer and photographer documenting and interpreting various aspects Taiwanese culture in relation to Japan and the Japanese, particularly the railways and other relics of the colonial era. Author of Koshashin ga kataru Taiwan: Nihon tōchi jidai no 50-nen, 1895–1945 (Taiwan Through Early Photographs: Fifty Years of Japanese Colonial Rule, 1985–1945), Taiwan ni nokoru Nihon tetsudō isan (The Legacy of the Japanese Railways in Taiwan), and other works.

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    Sep 6, 2023