Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, the late ROC president Chiang Kai-shek, and former president Lee Teng-hui all studied or lived in Japan, enjoying close friendships with many Japanese. However, the brutality of the Sino-Japanese war and a half-century of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan generated great enmity between Chinese and Japanese.
國父孫中山、老蔣總統中正、李前總統登輝都曾在日本待過，有許多知心的日本友人；然而慘烈的中日戰爭、半世紀的殖民台灣，讓中日之間的愛恨情仇永遠難以釐清。