| 發表內容: 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 TaiwanBy 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."
                  〈我有意見〉  
                   
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