"The Tanakas are lovely people doing a horrible thing."
Who are the Tanakas? Fictional characters, in a Taiwanese novel of the 1930s.
Taiwan is Japan's forgotten colony. South Korea and China keep alive their own memories — and by extension Japan's — of what they suffered under Japanese rule for half a century prior to 1945.
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