J-colonization was 'good': Minister Aso the asshole says it again!

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="3"][floatl][/floatl]Taiwan J-colonization was 'good': Aso [/SIZE]
The Japan Times, Feb 5, 2006
... Minister Taro Aso said Saturday that Taiwan's present high educational standards resulted from compulsory education implemented during Japan's colonization ...more...

[AssKissinger]

What a cunt.

Besides the education system they have in place because of the Japanese mainly serves to systemically destroy the glory of youth of the entire nation.

[Greji]

[SIZE="3"][floatl][/floatl]Taiwan J-colonization was 'good': Aso [/SIZE]
The Japan Times, Feb 5, 2006
... Minister Taro Aso said Saturday that Taiwan's present high educational standards resulted from compulsory education implemented during Japan's colonization ...more...

Strangely enough, he might be right, but, tis not the season for a Minster of any branch of the J-Government to be making these seemingly "natsukashii no yo na" references to the war time years.

One of the Taiwan political action groups home page has this to say:

"....The Japanese Period

The Japanese occupation was harsh, but at least the Japanese were not corrupt. The educational system was built up to the same level as in Japan, infrastructure, trains, roads, industry etc. were developed extensively. An excellent academic work on the Japanese period is Mr. George Kerr's work on the "Formosan Home Rule Movement."

An interesting anecdote from the 1930s needs to be mentioned here: At that time the Chinese Communists under Mao Tse-tung were vying for control over China with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. In an interview with American reporter Edgar Snow, Chairman Mao said: "...we will extend them (the Koreans) our enthusiastic help in their struggle for independence. The same thing applies for Taiwan" (p. 110 in Red Star over China, by Edgar Snow.)...."
http://www.taiwandc.org/hst-1624.htm

The Chinese Government has a very selective memory when making claims that Taiwan has always been their exclusive property!

But going back to the post, Aso is probably accurate in as far as what he stated, being that he limited it as he did, but unless he has some other reason for raising this point, it probably couldn't have been more untimely, given the current state of relations. You know the screamers are going to be all over this as another reason not to talk or meet with Japan's supposedly new "Militaristic Thinking Right!" Classic hoof in mouth disease syndrome. Very poor timing!

[dimwit]

The 'education' that Taiwanese received in the 1910-1945 period was somewhat worse than the residential school of natives in Canada. They were basically boot camps which emphasized super-patriotism and bushido code. The 'history' they were learning for example was slightly worse than learning nothing at all given the Japanese educational standards of the time.

[Buraku]

One of the Taiwan political action groups home page has this to say:

I'd rather not even read that shit, Taipei political fuckheads mostly are a basketcase,
much like those stupid uyoku or lefty groups in Nippon



These are the types of shitheads you'll get in Taipei

you get crackpots that forget Uncle Sam has a 'one-China' policy

there are Taiwanese nutjobs who forget that Japan never recognized Taiwan and Japanese usually tell Taipei to piss off on this national issue whenever some fishing or trade dispute pops up

then you get some commie socialist headcases who think Taiwan should kiss up to Mainland China and become a poodle

there are also the conservative PFP and KMT who view the guys in Beijing as a bunch of hijackers while Taiwan's Qinmingdang or Kuomintang should be the true ruler of Peiking

You've also got a few native groups and aboriginal residents of Taiwan

and then there are the weird Taiwan Japanophiles,
the Taiwanese that hate everything Cantonese, boycott Sichuan goods, dispise Mongols, ban JackieChan movies, hate Mandarin Hans...
..these guys remind some of American Neo-Nazis who worship Hitlers imperialism and think Germany was right to start bashing immigrants, Jews...and wished Hitler defeated the USA
the Taiwanese TSU, one of these bizzare Japanofile groups spends its time with Ishihara worshiping the most nasty of spirits at Yasukuni and declaring how the massacre of the orginal native aboriginal residents in Taiwan by Japanese imperials was a 'necessary evil'
TSU went on the move with some anti-China policy but it licked Japanese balls a bit too much and suffered defeat in the December 2005 local elections, along with its pan-green partner the DPP, and failed to win any seats.

If you look hard enough you'll find some nutcase Taiwanese that would want more J-colonization and would love Minister Aso the asshole to invade Taipei again and free it from 'free-thought', destroy 'lefties and liberals', ban American food, ban HongKong films and kill more aboriginals

Do they have something to say or are they mere mindless little dogs - lost without their former Nippon masters

[homesweethome]

Taiwan owes Japan

The quarrel between Tokyo and Beijing over Japan's colonial and wartime history spilled over to the sensitive topic of Taiwan over the weekend, after Japan's foreign minister praised his country's past rule over the island.

The minister, Taro Aso, said in a speech on Saturday that Taiwan's present high educational standards resulted from Japanese colonial policies.

[Greji]

Taiwan owes Japan

I note that the article points out that as usual, the US Department of State is right on top of things:

"...."I believe there is a point of tension here," said Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick in a recent news conference here, "...."

It is truely amazing how the bureaucrats are so quick to identify matters of great significance!

[h22chen]

Japan's colonisation wasn't good but it did set some of the infrastructure of Taiwan.

As for the kind of education the population of Taiwan received, I'm not sure if the standards are the same as Japan's at that time. I do know some schools that were set up during the colonisation still exists today. Another note is that the aboriginals got the short end of the stick (as always, and in any administration, Dutch, Koxinga, Japanese, Chinese).

For post-secondary education, many went to Japanese universities. For one, I know that many people of the older generation does not have a negative opinion of Japanese civilians because of their fond memories of their Japanese teachers but no one has any fondness of the military and the administration.

[blackcat]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were GOOD too then, gave these dumb cunts a half used democracy.