But some people said bluntly: "It was between the Kuomintang and the Japanese, it had nothing to do with Taiwan," or "I only know about the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, I don't know about their invasion of China." Answers such as these to some extent reflect the detached attitude of the Taiwanese, who 50 years ago were far away from the front lines.
不過也有人直陳「這是國民黨和日本打的，和台灣無關」，或是「只瞭解日本佔領台灣，不瞭解日本侵略中國」，略微反映了台灣民眾對五十年前、千里之外無從想見的中日戰爭的疏離態度。