Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160109081421

Hayashi H wrote: You guys really need to find out the difference between 本音 and 建前. I can assure you though, that those Imperial Japan sympathizers in Taiwan are saying their 本音, or true thoughts.

Qunow's analysis is pretty good, I think I have very few things to add.

For example, the reasons behind those sympathizers are indeed partly because of those infrastructures, but of course that's not gonna be enough, as KMT built more per ruling year than the Japanese. If you examine how those sympathizers describe life under IJN rule, it won't take you long to realize that they are actually talking about the lives of those who are "particularly cooperative" to the Japanese. In other words, by propaganda magic, they made people believe that everyone under Japanese rule actually had that high a level of life.