[quote=“jesus80”]Well, everywhere in the world you are going to find this kind of people. The funny thing is that the crappier the country is, the more common these hatred messages are.
Regarding Japan and Taiwan… I’m not an expert at history, but the Han (and Han mixed) people here, who claim to be the “Taiwanese”, most of them were never under the Japanese government. …
Nevertheless, I know for a fact that some people here do not like Japanese. .[/quote]
You definitively have your history all mixed up -and better clean up the language…
Actually, those Han who came from China are the ones who hate Japan the most, either because they are war veterans themselves -in the ROC army- who fought against the Japanese Imperial Army, or had to flee with their few possessions or have been bombarded with atrocities like Nanking -Google it- and others of that sort.
The feelings on this matter are still strong. For example, last weekend one of my older neighbors was admiring my doggies and telling me how much he missed his family dog, so smart. When he was growing up, the dog guarded the house. Then the war came, and they had to flee. The dog stayed taking care of the property, even when the Japanese burned the house down. He said that very painfully.
You have to try to understand their point of view, too, even as we are aware that Taiwanese who were here before 1949 did not have an easy time afterwards. Imagine like the Russian taking over Berlin. The Chinese came and saw people speaking Japanese and dressing Japanese, looking Japanese… the result was animosity of both sides that has been slowly resolved over time. But it was quite a breach to cross.
BTW, all Japanese citizens were deported from Taiwan at the end of WWII. There were few Taiwanese in Japanese army, even aboriginals -and not so voluntarily, one suspects. And try to read on warlords in China.
The Taiwanese have a much better image of the Japanese, because of the infrastructure, advances in medicine and education, etc. even when they were a colony, second class citizens. Because then those educated people had to go into hiding, or medicine, were persecuted. That is also a painful scar.
If you thought history here was simple or far, heck no way. Different groups, different ethnicities, all trying to live together and reach a common livelihood goal. You need to talk more to the locals to understand the different points of view and why are they so.