臺灣在日本統治時期的民間文學記錄豐富，也是臺灣民間故事開始成冊發行的重要階段。這些故事集留下了當時的民間故事記錄，也影響著往後故事的發展，對於探究臺灣民間故事的情節演變，可以說是重要的一環。
《臺灣的故事》共三輯，都是日文著作。第一輯作者竹內治，共收23則故事。第二輯作者稻田尹，共25則。第三輯作者鶴田郁，共30則。本論文的研究，以陳萬春先生漢譯本為依據，搜集相關背景資料加以分析整理，並將三輯故事打散後，以民間散文敘事三分法分為神話、傳說和民間故事，注明類別、故事概要及情節單元，並分析、比較故事內容的時空和民族文化背景的特色與衝突性。希望能有助於瞭解臺灣民間故事流傳的經過與對自身文化的認識，進而達到幫助臺灣故事探源的工作。
本論文共七章：
第一章緒論，從前人研究的層面探討《臺灣的故事》三輯的可研究性，說明本文研究動機與方法。
第二章討論成書的背景，從日本統治臺灣時期的民間文學情況，以及當時的皇民化政治背景切入，討論《臺灣的故事》三輯的成書背景。
第三章將《臺灣的故事》三輯打散後，以民間散文敘事三分法做分類整理，以利全面性的觀察與分析。
第四章取涉及事物起源的神話、傳說和民間故事做討論分析，觀察文本是否受當時政策影響。
第五章取神仙敘事做討論分析，目的是為了瞭解與當時政策衝突的民間傳統信仰神明故事的內容。
第六章取負面性格角色的敘事做討論分析，觀察當時對於民眾普遍有的教育與警惕意義敘事。
第七章結論，總結說明前面章節的研究結果。
Taiwan's rich history about folk literature during the reign of Japan was also an important stage for the publication of Taiwan's folk tales. These stories not only keep the record of folk tales at the time, but also affect the development of future stories. It could be said an important part for the study about the evolution of Taiwan folk story.
There are three series of "Taiwan's story" and they are Japanese works. The first series of author Zhuji governance, a total of 23 stories. The second series of authors rice field Yin, a total of 25. The third series author He Tianyu, a total of 30. This paper is based on the Chinese translation which is collected and analyzed by Mr.Chen Wanchun.After the three series of stories are scattered, the folk essay narration is divided into myths, legends and folktales.The story summary,plot unit, and analysis, compare the story of the time,space and national cultural background characteristics and conflict. Hoping to help understand the story spreading and knowing their own attain the work about investigating.
In this thesis,there are seven chapters：
The first chapter introduces the research of the "Taiwan's story" from the level of previous studies and explains the motivations and methods of this paper.
The second chapter discusses the background of the book which is from the Japanese rule of Taiwan folk literature and the Kominka Movement background cut into the "Taiwan's story" three series of book background.
The third chapter is about breaking up "Taiwan's story" into three series to sort,observe and analyze.
The fourth chapter involves the origin about myths, legends and folk tales to discuss and analyze whether the text is influenced by the policy at that time.
The fifth chapter takes the narration of the gods to do the discussion and analysis The purpose is to understand the conflict with the policy about the folk tradition of the story and the content of the gods.
The sixth chapter takes the negative character to discuss and analyze,the general education and vigilance.
The seventh chapter is the conclusion which Summarized the results of previous chapters.
