Tang Te-chang

Thng Tek-chiong (POJ: Thng Tek-chiong; 6 January 1907 – 13 March 1947), also known as , was a Taiwanese lawyer of Japanese descent, born in Tainan Prefecture during Japanese rule. He was killed in the February 28 Incident.

Life Tekchiong's parents Tokuzo Sakai and Thng Gio̍k married in 1902. At the time, marriages between Japanese and Taiwanese were illegal, and Tekchiong took his maternal surname. Tekchiong's father was a police officer. He died when Tekchiong was eight years old, as a result of attacks on police stations organized by supporters of . The family was not compensated, and Tekchiong grew up poor. He received some financial help from a traditional Han physician named Iûⁿ Choân. In 1927, he passed the formal civil service examination and became a Tainan Prefecture Patrol officer deployed to . He married a year later. Tekchiong left law enforcement to pursue legal studies in Japan at the age of 32. He returned to Taiwan in 1943. Tekchiong was interrogated by NRA soldiers regarding his ancestry, to which Thng reportedly replied, "I was born in Taiwan, I was raised in Taiwan. Am I not Taiwanese?" They insisted he was Japanese and Tekchiong challenged them to question him in the Japanese language.