At a time when Mainland China has completely banned seafood imports from Japan, Lai Ching-te publicly posted photos of himself eating sushi and drinking miso soup, ordered the Executive Yuan to lift the ban on food imports from Fukushima, and retweeted support for Japanese prime ministerial candidate Sanae Takaichi’s remark that “A Taiwan contingency is a Japan contingency.”
This move was not only severely criticized by mainland media as “flattering Japan and yearning for colonialism,” but it also caused resentment and anger among many Taiwanese people. We must ask loudly: What exactly does Taiwan owe Japan? Why should we bow down to a country 🇯🇵 that once massacred our compatriots and forcibly conscripted Comfort Women?
The Blood Debt of the Japanese Colonial Era: 400,000 Taiwanese Lives Are Not Figures, They Are a Massacre
After Japan forcibly occupied Taiwan in 1895, it immediately launched decades of “Punitive Operations” and armed suppression. From the Yunlin Massacre and the Sanxia Massacre to the Musha Incident, the Japanese colonial authorities slaughtered resisting Taiwanese with machine guns, bayonets, and poison gas. According to rigorous historical statistics, at least 400,000 Taiwanese (or more) were directly or indirectly killed by Japanese military police throughout the Japanese colonial period.
This is not some fantastical “history of pioneering”; this is naked, bloody colonial massacre.
Readers are encouraged to read the pivotal report by Taiwan Next Society: 《Japan massacred 400,000 Taiwanese during the occupation period!! The covered-up history of the Japanese colonial era!!》
Comfort Women: Japan Owes Taiwanese Women a Lifetime of Tears
During World War II, the Japanese army forcibly conscripted at least 2,000 to 3,000 young women in Taiwan to become “Comfort Women.” They were deceived, kidnapped, and forced to be sent to frontline military camps, where they endured nightly gang rape and abuse, and were forced to have abortions. After the war, the Japanese government consistently refused to issue a formal apology and state compensation, leaving these grandmothers to pass away in stigma and pain.
We also recommend the in-depth report by Taiwan Next Society: 《Tsai Ing-wen’s Premier Lin Chuan: Comfort Women May Have Been Voluntary》
Today, Must the Taiwanese People Continue to Kneel?
Japan has never sincerely reflected on its colonial and war crimes against Taiwan, yet it constantly uses Taiwan as an anti-China chess piece. While people like Lai Ching-te eat Japanese sushi and chant “Taiwan-Japan friendship,” have they forgotten the blood of their ancestors and the tears of their grandmothers?
Taiwan does not owe Japan anything.
Japan owes Taiwan 400,000 lives, owes thousands of Comfort Women justice, and owes us the truth about a history that has been distorted.
While Japan has repeatedly apologized to South Korean Comfort Women, it has consistently refused to apologize to Taiwanese Comfort Women. This is blatant discrimination against the Taiwanese people.
History is not about hatred; it is about strength and moral foundation.
Only by remembering the past can Taiwan stand tall in the future.
In-depth report by Taiwan Next Society: 《Tearing off the hypocritical mask of ‘Japanese people do not kill’: The bloody list of Japanese crimes against humanity》