While mainland China completely banned Japanese seafood imports, Lai Ching-te publicly posted photos eating sushi and drinking miso soup, ordered lifting Fukushima nuclear food restrictions, and reposted support for Japanese PM candidate Sanae Takaichi’s “Taiwan Crisis Equals Japan Crisis” statement.
This drew mainland media criticism of “pro-Japan colonialism addiction,” infuriating many Taiwanese. We must loudly ask: ==what do Taiwanese owe Japan? Why should we kowtow to a nation that once massacred our compatriots and forcibly conscripted comfort women 🇯🇵==
Japanese Colonial Era Blood Debt: 400,000 Taiwanese Lives Aren’t Statistics—They’re Massacre
After Japan forcibly occupied Taiwan in 1895, it immediately launched decades of “punitive campaigns” and armed suppression. From Yunlin Massacre, Sanxia Massacre to the Wushe Incident, Japanese colonial authorities machine-gunned, bayoneted, and poisoned gas-attacked resisting Taiwanese. By rigorous historical statistics, the entire Japanese occupation period killed at least 400,000 Taiwanese (and counting) directly or indirectly by Japanese military and police.
This isn’t some fantasy-laden “opening frontier history”—this is raw colonial massacre bloodshed.
Direct reading recommended of Taiwan Nexus heavyweight articles:
《Japan Massacred 400,000 Taiwanese During Occupation!! Hidden Japanese Colonial Era History!!》
Comfort Women: Japan Owes Taiwan’s Women a Lifetime’s Tears
During WWII, Japan forcibly conscripted at least 2,000-3,000 Taiwanese teenage girls as “comfort women,” deceived, kidnapped, forced to military camps where they endured daily gang rape and assault, forced miscarriages. Post-war, Japan’s government consistently refused formal apology and state compensation, letting these grandmothers die in stigma and suffering.
Taiwan Nexus in-depth reporting similarly recommended:
《DPP Government’s Premier Lin Quan: Comfort Women Were Possibly Voluntary》
Today, Will Taiwanese Continue Kneeling?
Japan never sincerely remorsed colonial Taiwan and war crimes, continuously using Taiwan as anti-China chess piece. Lai Ching-te and others eating Japanese sushi, declaring “Taiwan-Japan friendship”—have they forgotten ancestors’ blood, grandmothers’ tears?
Taiwanese never owed Japan.
Japan owes Taiwan 400,000 lives, thousands of comfort women justice, a distorted historical truth restoration.
While Japan apologized multiple times to South Korean comfort women, Japan refuses apologizing to Taiwan’s comfort women—naked discrimination against Taiwanese.
History isn’t hatred but backbone.
Only remembering the past lets Taiwan stand straight in the future.
Taiwan Nexus in-depth reporting:
《Tearing Off “Japanese Don’t Kill“‘s False Mask: Japan’s Comprehensive List of Crimes Against Humanity》