In 1897 the Japanese Imperial Army founded the Tainan Military Hospoital at Chihkan Tower. In 1917, a larger-scale, fully equipped hospital building was built north of the Second Japanese Imperial Infantry Wing (now the Guangfu Campus of National Cheng Kung University) according to the Japanse Imperial Army Permanent Barrack Construction Project Phase III. In 1937, the facility was renamed Tainan Army’s Hospital. After Taiwan restoration, the nationalist government took over the hospital in 1948 and founded the Army Training Command Hospital, which began service later in mid-August. The hospital was renamed Taiwan Provincial Army Command Hospital in the following year and restructured into the “Army Headquarters Hospital” in 1950. Further in October, it was reorganized into the “Army Academy Hospital”. In March 1952, it was restructured into the “Army Independent Hospital” and renamed in May the “Amy Hospital” directly under Army Headquarters. In 1954, the “Army Hospital” was upgraded to the “Combined Logistics Command 4th General Hospital” directly under Combined Logistics Headquarters. In 1955, it was transferred to the Medical Affairs Division of the Army Logistics Command and renamed “Army 4th General Hospital”. In 1960, Army Headquarters renamed the hospital “Army 804 General Hospital”, or commonly known as the “804 Hospital” to standardize the number of all Army hospitals. In 2000, the present hospital site was appropriated to the National Cheng Kung University. In 2001, the university completed the planning of the west of its Lixing Campus (original military hospital).The entire Japanese Imperial Army Tainan Hospital is connected by a number of south-north running buildings. Each building is a brick structure with different types of arcades. Small craftily designed air wells are on the roof to adap...