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[jkroo]

Radiation sickness. US was justified dropping the Fatman in Japan. the only bad thing was it missed the real target ---Tokyo

And the recent nuclear power plant disaster. The truth can't be revealed yet. It's not a responsible action from the company and the nation. People still be suffering from the disaster.

 

[jkroo]

Good move Taiwan
Should do more and harder on the Japanese





the Japanese do not seem to realise they are doped by their government early on but I strongly think they choose to believe what they were taught in defiance of history and facts

Look at the Japanese member (s) here ... and just recently the farce on the "Mishubishi Apology"

Ancient Chinese Art of Paper Folding

I agree with you, buddy. They(Japanese) have strategy to be 'normal country' that people are willing to believe what the gov tell them for the ambition. As a nation that heavily effected by Conficiusim, I know this ambition will drive them to reach it and that means the US strength/influence will be diminished in Japan with the strategy come to true.

I trust that the more good that Japan shows to US will lead to serious retreatment when US back off. You know the western like bet-hedging. So there is a chance that Japan will stand with China when the day comes for eastern culture and strategy concern and counter the balance measures.

Personally, I don't want to see Japan to be the victim but they like gambling and change frequently with eastern culture background and also they seemed to benum US for years. I did see some western professionals realized their tactics and criticized Obama's gov especially after Abe go into power. You should observe the Japanese website 2CH - a Japanese nationalists camp. It's very interesting and looks like a Taiwan forum in 2000s.

More medicine of Japan will be used for US as I see. There will be an interesting game in two years especially the US election season comes. Oh, wait. Are you ready to recieve more US president candidates' criticism, buddy? @Keel To be hated or criticized is better than to hate and criticize others.



忍辱负重，辱尽威来，中日皆如此。

 

[Aepsilons]

Interesting points shared.

 

[TaiShang]

A Taiwan filmmaker’s quest to gather accounts of WWII - Global Times


A Taiwan filmmaker’s quest to gather accounts of WWII
By Zhou Yu Source:Global Times Published: 2015-7-16 19:55:02

Chen Chun-Tein visits a battlefield near the Yellow River in Shaanxi Province. Photo: Courtesy of Chen Chun-Tein


He only has time to talk to reporters at midnight, as he spent the rest of the day revising his work of the last 20 years. He is Chen Chun-Tein, the Taiwanese creator of a 40-episode TV documentary Each Inch of Mountain and River is an Inch of Blood.

The film is regarded as the most comprehensive Chinese documentary on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45). Since the documentary was premiered in Taiwan in the 1990s, Chen has continuously updated his opus, revising footage, sound-bites, narration and interviews. As a result, Chen, 75, has been dubbed the “Chronicler of the War.”

Forty years ago, Chen was a totally different person. Known as the “Great Gatsby” in Taiwan, Chen was streetwise and a quick learner. In the 1970s, he worked at Taiwan Television, the island’s first TV station, producing entertainment shows. He made shows featuring the island’s most famous celebrities and won a slew of TV awards. But he didn’t want to be Gatsby. He was looking for a challenge.

Challenges were nothing new to him.

Born in Fujian Province in 1940, Chen’s father was a Kuomintang (KMT) soldier and his mother a devout Christian. His childhood was poor and desperate. In order to make a living, he followed the KMT army to Taiwan. Not long afterwards, both his father and his brother – who had stayed on the Chinese mainland – committed suicide due to their connections with the KMT army. Chen and his mother were separated across the Taiwan Straits for 30 years until they were reunited in 1983.

Despite how famous he became and the success he had in the TV business during the 1970s, his childhood experiences pushed him to search for his family’s own identity.

Challenge of a lifetime

He found the challenge he was looking for in 1994. Chiang Wei-kuo, one of former Taiwan leader Chiang Kai-shek’s two sons, visited Taiwan TV and asked Chen to make a documentary about the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Chiang told him that the documentary had to be truthful and that he wouldn’t accept any censorship. Chiang said to him: “If my Dad (Chiang Kai-shek) did something wrong, you speak out truthfully.”

The most difficult part of making the documentary was gathering primary materials. Unlike Western armies, which had photojournalists that recorded battles, the Chinese forces were so poor they didn’t have cameras, let alone dedicated photographers.

To get the facts about the dead, Chen turned to the living – capturing on film as much oral testimony from veterans as possible.

Chen divided his 20-strong documentary team into four groups that each went to different places – the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, the US, Japan – to interview veterans. Chen insisted that the soldiers had to have been present at the actual battles they were talking about.

Chen interviewed 700 veterans in total. Today, 95 percent of the interviewees have passed away.

He also interviewed 70 Japanese soldiers. They were in their 80s and sought forgiveness for the atrocities they committed in China. “Those Japanese veterans were very sincere. They all apologized before the camera,” Chen said.
However, people’s memories are notoriously unreliable. After each interview, Chen would check, compare and cross-reference his materials. Some KMT soldiers had fought twice in the same city during different wars: against the Japanese and against the Communist Party of China. Chen double-checked their words against books, other soldiers’ accounts, and even with the weather reports about a particular day of fighting.

The first edition of the documentary premiered in 1995. After that, without any further funding from the government, Chen felt the need to constantly release new editions in order to make it more accurate.

Chen says he feels the need to make sure his documentary appeals to both younger and older audiences.

“Japan occupied and ruled Taiwan for 50 years. Many of the elder generations in Taiwan were not interested in the war. Nowadays, young people learn history from videos and photos, instead of books. I need to do it well so that they want to watch it,” Chen said.

Playing no games

Chen has received little financial help from the Taiwan authorities. The regional government asked Chen to modify and revise the documentary according to their ideological guidelines, but he refused to accept censorship in return for financial help. “The last thing I want is censorship. I have worked in the TV sector for so long. I won’t play any more games.”

When Chen came to the mainland to produce documentaries related to the war, he also faced various restrictions.

“I had to face the question of judgment on red lines. There were some things I could say and some things I couldn’t.” However, Chen cherished the chance to shoot a documentary on the mainland. “This means a Taiwan TV producer could make something on modern Chinese history acceptable on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. This is a incredible progress,” he said.

According to news reports, Each Inch of Mountain and River is an Inch of Blood will be shown on China Central Television in October, but Chen told the Global Times that it won’t be shown due to an “unavoidable accident.”

Personal revelation
Over the last year, the media in the Chinese mainland media outlets have delivered more reports on the battles fought against the Japanese invaders by the KMT, but their emphasis is mostly on individual battles or individual KMT generals. For Chen, that is far from enough.

“War is so complicated. Every soldier, every general, every battle is connected. The causes and effects of war are linked together. What I am doing is describing an era,” he said.

After two decades of research, Chen has had a revelation. The war was catastrophic for the Chinese people. The large scale migration involving tens of millions of people it caused created something good: a great national integration of different regions and ethnic groups. Northerners migrated to the south, while easterners moved to the west.

“The biggest and hardest puzzle for both sides across the Straits has been figuring out what it means to be Chinese. The blood spilt by millions of people during the war should clear our minds to regain our national dignity. One word of truth is heavier than the whole world,” he said.

 

[TaiShang]

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[opruh]

Yes, spread the truth about Japanese war crimes and immoral acts.

 

[TaiShang]

 

[TaiShang]

Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou Warns Against Letting Beijing Ties Cool

President cites ‘economic reality,’ says rapprochement has benefited island’s security, trade

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has made better relations with China the keystone accomplishment of his tenure, but that engagement policy has come at a hefty cost to his popularity. President Ma talks to The Wall Street Journal about what he expects to achieve in his final year.

TAIPEI—Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou defended the rapprochement he has forged with China, saying the closer ties have boosted Taiwan’s economy and security and shouldn’t be tampered with by his successor.

Entering his eighth and last year in office, Mr. Ma rebuffed suggestions that his China policy is proving divisive in Taiwan and costing his ruling Kuomintang Party popular support ahead of January’s presidential elections.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Ma noted that while many in the region favor a reinvigorated role in Asia for the U.S.—Taipei’s longtime security backer—China is Taiwan’s largest trade partner, as it is for most neighboring countries.

“This is an economic reality that cannot be completely changed,” Mr. Ma said Friday.

Relations with China are an existential issue for Taiwan; Beijing has never relinquished the threat to retake the island by force and end a split that dates to the Chinese civil war in the middle of the last century.

Opinion polls show Taiwanese overwhelmingly favor the current vague status quo, neither embracing the reunification that China wants nor seeking to provoke Beijing by rejecting it outright.

Mr. Ma said his administration has brought relations across the Taiwan Strait to their best in decades, though they aren’t without friction. One hitch was China’s refusal to allow Taiwan to be a founding member of Beijing’s newly established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a multilateral lender meant to fund infrastructure and spread China’s influence.

Mr. Ma said that his government had applied to join the bank under the name “Chinese Taipei.” That formulation has been acceptable to Beijing in other forums. Beijing didn’t publicly say why it rejected Taiwan’s initial request, but welcomed Taipei to apply later to be a regular member under an “appropriate name.”

Asked if his government received an explanation, Mr. Ma said: “I think it was most likely due to political considerations.”

Still, he said, economic ties have flourished—with trade up by more than a third since he took office—and tensions have eased. That, he said, is giving the two governments a stake in peace.

“We have transformed our relationship with mainland China from one marked by confrontation and conflict into one marked by negotiation and rapprochement,” said Mr. Ma. He suggested that opposition Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen should take note.

“Cross-strait policies are vital and must not be taken lightly. No major changes should be made, especially on key issues,” Mr. Ma said. “Over the last seven years, we have been able to improve ties across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan’s relations with the rest of the world are also much better. We should cherish these accomplishments.”

To maintain the momentum, Mr. Ma said he wants Beijing to agree to set up representative offices in each other’s territories and to make Taiwan a transit point for mainland tourists.

He also urged Taiwan’s legislature to pass a trade-in-services agreement his administration reached with China. The pact has raised concern in Taiwan that opening up investment between each other’s service sectors would make Taiwanese companies vulnerable to competition from large, deep-pocketed mainland businesses. It was shelved last year after the student-led Sunflower Movement occupied the legislative hall, demanding revisions.

Mr. Ma suggested that Taipei’s approval of a separate agreement on trade in goods with China earlier in his presidency had won over Beijing and paved the way for Taiwan to sign various trade and investment agreements with Japan, New Zealand and Singapore.

Likewise, he said, the services agreement with China will boost Taiwan’s chances of joining larger free-trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is being promoted by the U.S. and currently excludes China.

Failure on the services pact risks setting Taiwan back, Mr. Ma said, noting that in such trade the island is lagging behind regional economic competitors Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

Rebutting criticisms, Mr. Ma said trade with the mainland is benefiting Taiwan’s small and medium-size businesses, especially in making money off the swell of mainland tourists. He said economic growth last year was robust and the stock market has been roaring, with the benchmark Taiex index topping 10,000 points.

“If we continue to shrink away because of political reasons it’s not in the interests of Taiwan, no matter which political party is in power,” Mr. Ma said.

After serving as the popular mayor of Taipei, Mr. Ma won the presidency in 2008, taking over from Chen Shui-bian, a Democratic Progressive Party politician whose harder line toward China led Beijing to intensify its efforts to isolate the island diplomatically and economically. The DPP’s current standard-bearer, Ms. Tsai, has said she supports the current state of relations, though is being pressed by critics and by the U.S. to clarify her policies toward Beijing further.

Mr. Ma’s engagement policies with China have won support in Washington, which is bound by law to assist in Taiwan’s defense. He took a neutral tone on Beijing’s territorial disputes, saying Taiwan is watching China’s land reclamation around disputed islands in the South China Sea and urged the preservation of freedom of navigation and overflight. In that dispute as with contested islands in the East China Sea near Taiwan, Mr. Ma said all sides should look to share resources while deferring issues of sovereignty.

At the same time, his government hasn’t boosted military spending as some U.S. defense experts have called for, and the Taiwan military is seen as low in morale, unable to attract sufficient recruits and having seen a string of espionage scandals involving China.

Mr. Ma said that while maintaining a military deterrent remains vital, the prosperity that trade and investment are generating also serves the U.S.’s interests in regional peace. “Due to Taiwan’s mainland policy, the U.S. can deal with Taiwan and mainland China peacefully at the same time. That’s very important progress,” he said.

 

[LowPost]

As I've posted once before, there is a détente going on at the moment and it would be a big pity of the efforts by the CPC and Ma's current administration to normalise relations ended up in vain.

 

[TaiShang]

When it comes to the ideal of Greater China, Taiwan and the Mainland are one and the same. We hold a similar approach to the islands in SCS as well as the Daioyu Dai that is currently under Japanese occupation. We despise the legacy of Japanese colonialism and war crimes unanimously.

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Taiwan compatriots donated hundred pieces of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War to Shandong
2015/6/19

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum.

　　Wang Hongyong (1st, R), deputy director of Publicity Department of the CPC Shandong Provincial Party Committee, issued the donation certificates to Xu Boyi(1st, L) and He Yufen.

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum.

　　He Yufen is telling the stories behind the cultural relics.

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum.

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum.

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum.

　　On June 18rth, the donation ceremony of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War was held in Shandong Museum. Xu Boyi, curator of Taiwan Boyi Art Museum, and He Yufen, chairperson of Taiwan Rizhao Association, donate 102 pieces of cultural relics of the Anti-Japanese War to Shandong Museum.The cultural relics will be the permanent collection of Shandong Museum.

　　Wang Hongyong, deputy director of Publicity Department of the CPC Shandong Provincial Party Committee, issued the donation certificates to Xu Boyi and He Yufen; Zhang Xueyan, the director of Taiwan Affairs office of People’s Government of Shandong Province and Xie Zhixiu, director of Shandong Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage, attended the ceremony and delivered speeches; Zhou Xiaobo, deputy director of director of Shandong Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage, hosted the donation ceremony.

 

[TaiShang]

Exhibition launched on Taiwan's fight with Japan
2015-06-09 17:23

A photo exhibition of testimony and evidence commemorating Taiwan's patriotic history over the past 120 years was unveiled in Beijing on Tuesday.

The opening ceremony attracted around 200 people including representatives from cross-Straits related associations and institutes, history experts and media.

Liang Guoyang, Party chief of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots spoke of Taiwan people's patriotic fight during its half century as a colony under Japan.

The First Sino-Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) China and Meiji Japan. The Qing government was defeated and signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki under which Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The war is commonly known in China as the War of Jiawu.

"Since then, Japan began its 50 years' brutalized governing of Taiwan. But Taiwan people’s fight against invaders has never ended. With the support of compatriots from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan people carried out many resistance battles and left behind many anti-Japanese heroes and stories. Some 650,000 Taiwan people lost their lives during the fight," Liang said.

"Taiwan people's anti-Japanese history is an important part of Chinese nation’s anti-aggression history," he added.

"2015 is the not only the 70th anniversary of the Victory of China’s Anti-Japanese War, but also is the 70th anniversary for the Retrocession of Taiwan. We hope the exhibition can jog the memories of people cross-Straits".

The event was co-sponsored by the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression，Beijing Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, Fujian Provincial Archives and the Association of Family Members of Anti-Japanese Heroes in Taiwan.

Divided into eight parts, besides words and photos, the exhibition also presents some precious historical relics. It will be open to the public until June 16 at the Taiwan Center in Beijing.

 

[TaiShang]

ARMED FORCES MUSEUM >>Usual Exhibitions >>Showroom #2

1. Introduction
The 8-Year War of Resistance is a holy war that People of R.O.C. fought for survival and dependency. This is also an unprecedented war in Chinese history that the weak defeated the powerful one.

We can forgive, but we shall never forget those pains in wartime. We hope to soothe the pain and learn from the lessons in history, to be aware of the preciousness of peace.

The 8-Years War of Resistance against Japan is a sacred war for the survival of the Chinese nation and for national independence. Normally, the “8-Years War of Resistance” refers to the full-scale war against Japan after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Broadly speaking, the war against Japan can also be traced back to the Mukden Incident when the Japanese armed forces intruded into China’s northeastern territories in 1931. Some scholars divided the war into two phases with the outbreak of the “Pacific War” on 8 December 1941 as the line of division. The previous four years of the First Phase War was often termed the “4-Years War of National Independence” while the Second Phase War was in alliance with the British and American armed forces, and the “China Theater” became an important element in the world war against aggression.

In the protracted 8 years of war against Japan, Nationalist Army suffered the most but also made the most contributions. Statistically the war comprised 22 large-scale battles, 175 guerillas over 1,100 large-scale fightings and over 38,900 skirmishes, causing more than 3.2 million dead and injuries. Total casualties including soldiers and civilians topped 21 million nationwide (including missing in actions). But the Chinese nation revenged years of humiliation since the late Qing Dynasty, abolished the unequal treaties signed over the past hundred years and ranked among the top Five world powers.

《Japanese Ambition 》
In the aftermath of 918 battle, 1931, the Japanese forces occupied China’s northeastern provinces, launched the Battle of Shanghai in 1932 and set up Manchukuo in the same year. Moreover, the Japanese forces occupied the Jehol Province in 1933 and encroached upon the Great Wall and coerced China to sign the Tangku Truce. Japan stepped up aggression against China in 1935 and 1936 by launching the so-called “Autonomous Movement” for Inner Mongolia and five northern provinces. Sino-Japanese relations rapidly deteriorated. With peaceful resolution of the “Xi’an Incident”, Japan was determined for further encroachment against China, making the Sino-Japanese War imminent and inevitable.

《China Under Siege in Balefire 》
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
On 7 July, 1937, the Japanese forces stationed in Fengtai again staged night-time military exercise targeting at Marco Polo Bridge outside Wanping county. Located 7 kilometers west of Fengtai and 15 kilometers away from Beijing’s East Gate, the bridge was an important hub of Pinghan railway line. About 11 o’clock that night, the Japanese forces demanded search for a missing soldier in Wanping county town. A while later, the missing Japanese soldier returned to his troop but the Japanese side still insisted on investigation of the missing incident and called for cooperation of the Chinese side. China agreed to a joint investigation, but the Japanese forces launched a surprise attack.


《All-out Defense》
Early War Period
The initial period of the war lasted more than a year from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July 1937 to October 1938 when the Chinese forces retreated from Guangzhou and Wuhan. The main strategy of our forces during this period was to fight a lasting battle by exchanging space for time. Our forces garrisoned critical depots and launched attacks to stall the Japanese advance, hoping to attract international attention and assistance. The Japanese strategy was for speedy and decisive battles, searching for the Chinese main forces and launched brutal attacks and massive massacre in a move to compel China to surrender.
This period was also called the period of “strategic retreat,” whereby the Chinese forces avoided major battles but aimed for attrition of the enemy forces. This strategy foiled the Japanese strategy for a speedy ending to the war.

Middle War Period
The middle war period lasted from October 1938 when Guangzhou was lost and the Nationalist Army retreated from Wuhan to December 1941 when the Pacific War broke out. During this period, both sides were in a stalemate but the Nationalist and Communist Parties opened many battlefields behind the enemy. The Japanese strategy was to fight a lasting war. Internationally, American and British animosity against Japan was growing. The Nationalist army fought over 350 battles and won two-third of them. The most important battles were the three Changsha battles and the Kuinan battle.
During this period, human and material resources had been relocated to southwestern China and continued the strategy of fighting a lasting war. On the other hand, the Chinese communists adopted the strategy of “70% for development, 20% for pretentious and 10% for fighting against the Japanese.” The Chinese communist forces grew in strength day by day under cover. The Japanese enforced coastal and diplomatic embargo and helped set up puppet regimes with the objective of “using war to perpetrate war.”

Late War Period
The outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 ushered in the third stage of the war. In 1944, the Japanese launched the “No. 1 Warfare”, captured Pinghan and Yuehan railway lines and posed threat to Sichuan. However, U.S. victory in counter-offensives in the Pacific threatened the Japanese homeland, thereby held up Japanese advance inland. In the summer of 1945, the Nationalist army counter-attacked Guangxi and recaptured Guilin in July, and the Sino-Japanese War was drawing to a close.
During this period, our forces fought shoulder to shoulder with the allies. The international situation reversed in our favor after the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor Incident. With assistance from the allies, our army gradually improved its armament and turned defensive into offensive. Following expansion of the war zone and mounting offensives of the Alliance Forces, the Japanese forces eventually accepted unconditional surrender in the Potsdam Declaration in August 1945.

22 Major Battles
Throughout the 8-years war period, 22 large-scale battles and over 1,100 major battles were fought. Both sides mobilized tens of thousands of troops to plunge into the various battles. The battlefields of major battles extended over several hundred square kilometers and lasted weeks. Generally, the names of the places were used to refer to the battles.

The 22 large-scale battles are as follows:

1. Shanghai Battle;
2. Hsinkou Battle;
3. Hsuchou Battle;
4. Wuhan Battle;
5. Nanchang Battle;
6. Hsuizhao Battle;
7. First Changsha Battle;
8. Kuinan Battle;
9. Zaoyi Battle;
10. Yunan Battle;
11. Shanggao Battle;
12. Jinnan Battle;
13. Second Changsha Battle;
14. Third Changsha Battle;
15. Zhegan Battle;
16. ErXi Battle;
17. Changde Battle;
18. Yuzhong Battle;
19. Changheng Battle;
20. Kuiliu Battle;
21. Yuxiaubei Battle;
22. Xiangxi Battle.

《Combat with Alliances》
Burma-India Expedition
On December 8, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US navy suffered heavy losses. The US declared war against Japan following the incident. For four and a half years, our soldiers and civilians fought against the Japanese aggressors alone but then the international situation changed! The Japanese troops wildly attacked the British, U.S. and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and met little resistance. To accommodate changes in the international situation and to protect the Sino-Burmese Road, the Nationalist Government organized an expeditionary force to Burma to fight side by side with the British army there. The expeditionary force entered Burma in March 1942. Though the expeditionary force lost the battle, but it succeeded in giving cover to the British troops to retreat to India. The expeditionary force once retreated into India and received training and equipment of the Allies and formed the Chinese Garrison in India and later became the backbone force in counterattacks against the Japanese in the India-Burma War Theater.

《Victory of War against Japan 》
Japanese Defeat and Surrender
The Japanese faced attack on from the Sino-American forces by land and sea in the summer of 1945 and showed signs of collapse. The last straw was from two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S. Air Force on 6 August and 9 August on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The Japanese accepted eventual unconditional surrender to the Allies.
On the morning of 15 August, 1945, the Allies received notification of the Swiss Government and concomitantly declared unconditional surrender from Japan. At 9 am 9 September, 1945, Chinese General Ho Ying-chin accepted the surrender from Japanese Lieutenant General Okamura Yasutsugu in the auditorium of the Central Army Academy in Nanjing. After 8 years of arduous war, we won eventual victory.

Restoration of Taiwan
Taiwan was ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan met with resistance from the Taiwan compatriots, armed resistance in the early stage and political and cultural confrontation in the later stage. The Taiwanese on mainland China organized more than 40 anti-Japanese communities, mainly in Shanghai and Xiamen. During the Sino-Japanese War, the anti-Japanese had the common objective of “Defending the Fatherland and Recovery of Taiwan.”

The “Cairo Conference” in 1943 manifestly declared that Taiwan was part of the territories of the R.O.C. The Allies jointly issued the “Potsdam Declaration” to reaffirm this. The Japanese unconditional surrender is tantamount to acceptance of the conditions of the Potsdam Declaration. Chen Yi, Administrative Officer of Taiwan Province, then accepted the surrender of General Rikichi And, the last Japanese Governor-General in the Taipei Public Assembly on 25 October, 1945.

@bobsm

 

[TaiShang]

Yu Zhengsheng stresses Taiwan's Anti-Japan war contribution
2015-7-13 21:34:36

Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng stressed that victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was achieved by the whole Chinese nation as he met with a delegation of Taiwanese ethnic groups on Monday.

As China holds activities marking the anniversary of the conflict's beginning, Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said all those who fell while fighting for national sovereignty and territorial integrity should be remembered.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and also the 70th anniversary of the end of Japan's occupation of the island of Taiwan.

Yu praised Taiwan's ethnic minority groups for their efforts in opposing Taiwan independence and promoting peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.

He called on people from both sides to cherish and maintain the achievements of cross-Strait relations, stick to the "1992 Consensus", and oppose the political basis of Taiwan independence in order to realize common development and prosperity.

 

[bobsm]

"We can forgive, but we shall never forget those pains in wartime. We hope to soothe the pain and learn from the lessons in history, to be aware of the preciousness of peace. "

That says it all. Great job in posting these, Taishang. Those heroic soldiers need to be remembered and honored, by all Chinese, from both sides of the strait.

 

[TaiShang]

"We can forgive, but we shall never forget those pains in wartime. We hope to soothe the pain and learn from the lessons in history, to be aware of the preciousness of peace. "

That says it all. Great job in posting these, Taishang. Those heroic soldiers need to be remembered and honored, by all Chinese, from both sides of the strait.

Indeed. History must be kept alive and new generations must be cautioned against the attempts to sugarcoat and/or whitewash past crimes by the invaders and colonialists. The developmentalist rhetoric is not new and has not started with Japanese, but, Japan has wholeheartedly adopted discourse and has been propagating it.

The purpose is to first weaken our historical consciousness, and second, to drive wedges between the same people of the two sides of the Straits. It is refreshing to know that even the most Japanese/US worshiping of Taiwanese society is historically conscious, defends Greater China's sovereignty over SCS and ECS, and will never betray the cause of Greater China, no matter how much political differences.