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Re:Yeah, but...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.10 8:44 (#14887067) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:11)
Part of the reason Japan did well on people in Taiwan is Taiwan is the first overseas territory of Japan, it was seceded from China under Tsin Dynasty as a result of Sino-Japanese War in 1898, later South Sakhalin (1905) and Korea (1905) were added but Taiwan was the first.
What does it mean? Japanese tend to think Taiwan is more a part of Japan, not outside Japan, so they invested more intensely than the cases in other countries. And that there were no competitors like Russia (In Manchukuo, Korea) was one of reasons they could invest as many as they want, since they could expect optimal benefit from their investment. (Plunders from other competitors were not likely to occur.) Historically speaking, Taiwan is not at all a part of China. As their former name suggests Formosa used to be claimed one time as a territory by Spain (or Portugul), only after the advent of Tsin Dynasty the island was added in the map of China. Their native people are different from Han people, but similar to people from the South. They naturally had a feeling of repulsion agaist Han people. So those factors do not necessarily justify the colonial rule by Japanese, I just tried to make an objective statement there.
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