不知這篇台灣媒體又有沒有報導呢?
想必又是沒有

不需要看全文
只要看最後一段的結論就真相大白

"They appear to be going after Japan,"
他們(指抗議台灣論者)表面上是針對日本
Mr. Koo said.
"But they're really going after Chen's government."
但實際上是為了修理新政府

文中的Mr. Koo指的是Koo Kwang-ming
我不清楚是指誰
可否請各位高人指點指點

另外是李遠哲的意見:
"People in their 70's remember that the Japanese didn't treat us very well," said Lee Yuen-tseh, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who is one of Taiwan's most respected thinkers. "At the same time, there was a rule of law. When the KMT took over, society became lawless," he said, referring to Chiang Kai- shek's Nationalists, who took control of Taiwan after the defeated Japanese retreated in 1945.
他也明白老台灣人對國民黨之厭惡勝過於日本人

還有這段:
Mr. Hsu's remarks were particularly explosive because he is a supporter and adviser to President Chen Shui-bian.
許文龍的言論之所以引起軒然大波
純粹是因為他是陳總統的支持者及顧問

要真的了解台灣
居然要看國外報紙來對照
我們是不是又回到戒嚴時期了
真是悲哀~~~

March 2, 2001

Cartoon of Wartime 'Comfort Women' Irks Taiwan
By MARK LANDLERAIPEI,

Taiwan, March 1 ?A Japanese comic book that features a long interview with an aging Taiwanese businessman as one of its climactic scenes would seem a candidate for the remainder pile.

But the Chinese-language edition of the book, "On Taiwan," has been flying off the shelves here since Sunday, when a mob of Taiwan legislators and other protesters stormed into Taipei's biggest bookstore, grabbed armfuls of the book and set them on fire on the sidewalk outside.

The protesters said they were outraged by the book's depiction of the Taiwanese women who were kept in Japanese military brothels during World War II.

In case anyone missed the larger message, the crowd chanted anti- Japanese slogans and set fire to a poster of the Japanese flag.

"We know how the Japanese military persecuted Chinese and Taiwanese women," said Elmer Feng, a legislator who led the book-burning. "Publishing this book betrays Taiwan's national dignity. We need not hate the Japanese people, but we need to remind them never to do such things again."

Such vitriol against Japan is rare in Taiwan. Though Japan colonized the island from 1895 to 1945 ?and though an estimated 1,000 Taiwanese women were kept in its army brothels ?Taiwan does not view Japan with the deep bitterness of China or Korea, which were also subjugated by the Imperial Army.

Still the book, by the cartoonist Kobayashi Yoshinori, has rekindled a debate about Japan's colonial legacy. Inevitably, the Japanese are compared to the mainland Chinese who succeeded them on Taiwan.

"People in their 70's remember that the Japanese didn't treat us very well," said Lee Yuen-tseh, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who is one of Taiwan's most respected thinkers. "At the same time, there was a rule of law. When the KMT took over, society became lawless," he said, referring to Chiang Kai- shek's Nationalists, who took control of Taiwan after the defeated Japanese retreated in 1945.

After their own defeat by the Communists in the Chinese civil war in 1949, the Nationalists established their government in exile here.

Critics say Mr. Kobayashi's book presents a distorted account of Japan's last years in Taiwan, when the army rounded up "comfort women" for soldiers' use.

In one illustration, he depicts women lining up before a Japanese soldier to sign up for duty. Far from being coerced, the women are clad in kimonos and look eager to be chosen.

To buttress his claims, Mr. Kobayashi interviewed a Taiwanese industrialist, Hsu Wen-lung, who asserted that no women were forced to serve Japanese troops.

Mr. Hsu says the women worked in more hygienic conditions than regular prostitutes, because the soldiers were required to wear condoms.

"It's nothing but an outrageous distortion of a painful history, which over 1,000 Taiwanese women had to go through at the cost of their youth and lives," said Lin Feng-hao, chairwoman of the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, which represents the 100 or so who are still alive.

All told, Japan recruited as many as 200,000 women from China, Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan to provide sexual services for its military. Some were openly rounded up and pressed into service. Others were deceived with offers of jobs as housemaids.

Mr. Hsu's remarks were particularly explosive because he is a supporter and adviser to President Chen Shui-bian. On Monday, Mr. Hsu, a businessman who founded the Chi Mei Group, said he "felt deeply regretful for the controversy caused by my remarks and the harm done to the involved women."

That did not mollify legislators and women's organizations, who called on Mr. Chen to sever his ties to Mr. Hsu. Nine former "comfort women" held a news conference at which one said Mr. Hsu's "statement is not sufficient to ease our hurt and anger."

"He must apologize personally," the woman said.

In part, the debate over Japan is generational. Like many older Taiwanese, Hsu Wen-lung was educated by the Japanese. Former President Lee Teng-hui is said to be more comfortable speaking Japanese than Mandarin. He and others credit Japan with building bridges, railways, schools and hospitals.

"The miracle of the Taiwanese economy was built on the infrastructure left by the Japanese," said Koo Kwang-ming, a longtime advocate of Taiwan's independence from China who spent 25 years in exile in Japan.

As with many disputes here, this tempest is also about how Taiwan relates to its other neighbor, China.

In the years after the Chinese Nationalists took control of Taiwan, hundreds of Taiwanese dissidents like Mr. Koo fled to Japan.

Although the Japanese government never lent its support to an independent Taiwan, pro-China politicians in Taiwan like to portray independence advocates as tools of Japan.

Mr. Feng, the lawmaker who is leading the protest, favors unification with the Chinese mainland.

"The Taiwan independence movement is not independent," he said. "It depends on Japanese militarism."

Mr. Kobayashi's book might well have passed unnoticed except that it arrived at the start of an election year in Taiwan.

In December, voters will elect a new legislature, their first ballot since Mr. Chen swept the Nationalists out of power last year for the first time. Mr. Chen's party formally advocates an independent Taiwan.

By playing up the dispute over the women and the role of his ally Mr. Hsu, Mr. Chen's opponents appear to be trying to link him to a dark time in Taiwan's history.

"They appear to be going after Japan," Mr. Koo said. "But they're really going after Chen's government."

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