The online survey conducted in late October on 1,000 Japanese adults by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan found 74.5 percent of the respondents feel an affinity toward Taiwan.
In last year's joint public opinion survey by Japanese nonprofit think tank Genron NPO and the China International Communications Group, 89 percent of Japanese respondents had a bad or relatively bad impression of mainland China.
by SkyInJapan
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This is great. Taiwan disguished themselves by “wise” administration of Taiwan, doing things like, industrializing the country, building, dams and irrigation, and doing things like banning Chinese foot binding. As a result, Taiwan is the most pro Japan country in the world.
Taiwan literally worships Japanese people. If you live in Taiwan as a Japanese person, you will be treated as an idol.
oh yes, who wouldn’t feel affinity to a group of people who worship you? rocket science?
despite the popularity of Japanese culture, no other people in East Asia or Southeast Asia other than the Taiwanese whose existence / identity so hollow that they need the ‘goodness’ of Japan to fill that emptiness.
despite the popularity of Japanese culture in Korea, in Vietnam, in Thailand, in Indonesia, etc. – these people still have awareness and honor to their identity that prevent them from being emasculated fully like the Taiwanese.
Besides the obvious fact that Taiwan is a former Japanese colony, I’ve found that most Japanese people don’t actually know much about Taiwan or Taiwanese culture – Jay Chow, Teresa Teng, night markets, Confucius culture, etc. They just see Taiwan as a little brother because of the history between the two, and a few Taiwanese actually look up to Japan as a big brother. Kinda similar to Japanese and Hawaii.
Is this like a historic endearment because it was their very first colony?
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