From another perspective, when we look back with nostalgia on the cleanliness, order, universal education, and modernization occasioned by the Japanese occupation, it is also necessary to remember the resistance and the butchery with which the colonization began in the late 19th century, the suffering occasioned by that occupation, as well as the way Taiwanese were treated as second-class citizens.
另一方面，當我們緬懷著日據時代的乾淨、秩序、教育普及與現代化，也得反思台灣在 19 世紀殖民初期的激烈反抗與屠殺，甚至在 1944 年日本政府對台灣實施「徵兵制」之前，台灣人都還被當作二等公民，只能擔任「軍伕」，無法與「皇軍」平起平坐。