Message from jhou

[Anonymous]

Growing up in Taiwan, I often heard many old generation of Taiwanese people who still maintain a strong unofficial relationship with their colonial friends. They love to recall the good old days when Japan occupied Taiwan for fifty years. I think even today clever as Japan, they have use mass media to catch the heart of the youth across the board. Many of our students are paying a lot of attention to what the most updated development of newly made computer games, by the way, they are made in Japan. Some of them want to be next "super-person living in this planet" like those characters they saw at Japanese animate manga. As I recalled part of my childhood was actually watching Japanese made cartoon TV shows. It might be Asian complex psychology that continues maintaining the "love and hate" relationship with Japan.

Accidentally I had a chance to translate a few documentary films about the Pacific battles between Japan and United States. I would never forget the brutality and cruelty repeatedly shown throughout the films I saw on the screen. On the back of my mind, I still wonder why Japanese government wants to wash out part of the historical moments and denies the right to participate for its own citizens to witness bloody scenes of the Pacific War on the curriculum of World History Textbook around the world? julie