Controversy Over Comfort Women Statue in Tainan: Sankei Shimbun Criticizes 'Anti-Japanese' Sentiment, Author Asks: Shouldn't Japan Apologize for Crimes During the Japanese Occupation Era?

This article comments on the protests from Japan following the KMT's installation of a Comfort Women statue in Tainan. The author notes that Japan's *Sankei Shimbun* labeled the incident as an 'anti-Japanese act,' but argues that Taiwan (including South Korea) is actually opposing Japan's past war of aggression. The author stresses that while Japan has apologized and paid reparations to South Korea, it has never apologized to the Taiwanese Comfort Women, calling this clear 'discriminatory treatment.' The article concludes that if the Japanese are still unwilling to face and acknowledge the atrocities of the Japanese Occupation Era, then being perceived as 'anti-Japanese' is acceptable.

2019年7月3日

The Bloody History of the Shaw Ridge Street Incident: The Imperial Japanese Army's Massacre of the Taiwanese People

This article recounts the major massacre known as the 'Shaw Ridge Street Incident' (present-day Jiali District, Tainan) that occurred in $1895$ during the Japanese Imperial Guards Division's occupation of Tainan Prefecture. After fierce fighting with the Taiwanese volunteer army, rumors of a prince being killed or the cries of children exposing their location led the Japanese troops to open machine-gun fire on fleeing civilians hiding in ditches (house-side trenches), resulting in approximately two to three thousand victims and turning Shaw Ridge Street into a 'City of the Wrongfully Dead'.

2016年8月5日