Comments on: An Elderly Taiwanese Woman Who Loves Japan

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:35:11 +0000

Hmm, very interesting video. I liked the cute bit showing the war in China. “Vs”!

By: Claytonian

Claytonian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:25:02 +0000

The awkward response of the boys suggests a little bit of “oh yeah, we did conquer you and all. ha. ha. crazy huh?” feelings.

By: 羽之助

羽之助 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:27:19 +0000

Taiwanese people like Japan because when the Kuomintang survivors fled the mainland and set up shop in Taiwan, they let the infrastructure go to hell and treated the inhabitants a lot worse than they had been treated under Japanese rule. So a lot of older Taiwanese remember Japanese rule of the island as “that time when the roads didn’t have massive holes in them and the schools were good.”

By: John

John — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:50:36 +0000

Older Taiwanese are more friendly because except the aboriginals, whose culture and a good deal of the people were wiped out, they simply weren’t on the receiving end of the katana.

By: TofuUnion

TofuUnion — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:16:19 +0000

Although Taiwan was Japan’s colony for 50 years, Taiwanese are friendly to Japanese, probably because they’ve been having conflict with mainland China.

Even in Taiwan, the evaluation about contribution of modernization / industrialization by Japan in the colonial era, is a controversial political issue.(There were certain exploitations and discriminations by Japanese.)

Korean was Japan’s colony for 35 years. They would never admit positive side of colonial era. Unfortunately South Koreans feel more sympathy for North Korea than Japan.