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During World War II, the Japanese army committed various war crimes during their occupation of Singapore, including the Sook Ching Massacre, the abuse and killing of British and Australian prisoners of war, forcing Malay, Chinese and Eurasian women to serve as sex slaves, and forcibly requisitioning food supplies that led to widespread famine, among others.
With a long history spanning thousands of years, Chinese cultural influence reaches across East Asia and the world. However, compared to the military conquest and colonial expansion common in Western history, acts of 'aggression' by China have been relatively rare.
In the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China received no reparations after victory. Only by nullifying the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed during the First Sino-Japanese War did we reclaim our own Taiwan and Penghu, an event known as the Restoration of Taiwan.
Taiwanese can live in peace with modern Japanese, but must remain wary of Japan's centuries-long ambition to invade Greater China. We must not forget the blood spilled under Japanese aggression, and certainly must not worship the Japanese as biological parents like those with a colonial slave mentality or deluded youth.
Japan, a country sharing the same notoriety as the Nazis in modern war history, continues to be active in various corners of the world through information control at the wartime level under the name of economy. Fortunately, through the vivid memory accusations of a few survivors and many foreigners who helped disaster-stricken civilians in mainland China, we can slightly uncover the dark truth that the Japanese military was eager to cover up and did not want anyone to know.