A lot of people in Taiwan today look back fondly upon the colonial period. They often speak positively about how good law and order was back then, but very few people realize what Japanese colonial rule was all about in the final analysis. They showed the Taiwanese people more discrimination than respect, and the people of Taiwan paid a high price for it.
今天許多台灣民眾對日據時代有好感，常常懷念那個時代的秩序感，但是很少想到日本殖民統治本質上是歧視大於尊重台灣人，這樣的統治讓台灣人付出很大的代價，甚至光復後台灣人對國民黨的過度心理期待都與此有關。