Following the annexation of Taiwan by Japan due to the treaty of Shimonoseki, Japan constantly invested and developed in the Island to satisfy the natives, who were discontented with the policy of exploitation that the Qing Dynasty had practiced in the Island. One of the first acts of the Japanese Government, that had approved its first modern constitution months earlier, was the abolition of feudalism in the new Japan's prefecture, (Imperial Decree on the Abolition of the Feudalism of November 4th, of 1895.