NTU's Museum of Archives houses a vast collection of over 1.6 million of the university's official documents. The earliest of these documents tell fascinating stories about the university's reorganization after Japanese rule.

Did you know, for instance, that our beloved National Taiwan University was officially named National Taipei University at first? This little known fact of history is revealed in the university's very first document, Document No. 034000001.

On November 15, 1945, the new government in Taiwan directed that Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University be reorganized as "National Taipei University." When it came time to pen our first official letter, the person in charge, working with the limited resources of the time, used a form that had belonged to the school's predecessor. Undaunted, the person simply crossed out the "Imperial" and added the characters for "National."

Document No. 034000001 was issued to the Keelung City Government granting its request to hire the Japanese professor "Toyama Naozo" of the College of Engineering as an adjunct researcher. However, an investigation of Japanese faculty records revealed no traces of a Prof. Toyama Naozo. Instead, the person in question was Prof. Toyama Michizo, who was indeed a civil engineering professor at the College of Engineering.

In December of 1945, less than a month after its reestablishment, National Taipei University was officially renamed National Taiwan University, and the first document bearing this new title was filed as No. 034000002.