An Elderly Taiwanese Woman Who Loves Japan

This clip from a Japanese TV show educates viewers on why Taiwanese people seem to love Japan so much:

A group of Japanese traveling in Taiwan meet an elderly woman who speaks fantastic Japanese and declares her love for Japan. We are then told some of the following reasons why Taiwanese like Japan:

-Taiwan was a Japanese territory since the end of the 19th century.
-Taiwanese were educated in Japanese schools and read the kanji of their names in the Japanese style.
-Japan modernized Taiwan by building roads, hospitals, cities, railways, etc.
-Taiwanese viewed themselves as Japanese, and Japan turned Taiwan into a rich island.

The clip closes with the elderly woman declaring that she believes the Taiwanese have similar hearts to the Japanese. After she says that Taiwanese are possibly living by and protecting the “Japanese spirit” more than today’s Japanese are, the narrator comments on the unfortunate fact that Japan does not have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.