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As wartime culture became mobilized and subsumed into the ideology of war, geographical knowledge and conception were also restructured. After the Second Sino-Japanese war broke out in 1937, Japan showed a fervid imagination of China, Southeast Asia and Pacific in its movie, literature and music, which grew concurrently as the speed of invasion increased to establish its Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Since Taiwan occupied a strategic position that combined both Han Chinese and Pacific Islander cultures, the images of this Japanese colony were transformed under the imagined geography of the Empire. This chapter views recording sound as the mediator of various geographical/symbolic and material practices, by analysing the Japanese covers of Taiwanese popular songs issued during 1937-1945, to see how these songs adapt, appropriate, and represent the original versions. This chapter argues that the song covering culture that sprung out during wartime diminished the significances of the original versions, and shaped the original songs into an abstract space for the insertion of ideological, exotic imaginations which coincided with the expansion of the Empire. Through listening to these cover songs, we hear not only the projections of the Japanese Empire, which revealed the power, desire and conflict in the wartime period, but also the continuous reshaping and repositioning of Taiwan as a locale in space.