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Hello everyone
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Today let’s talk a little about
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Taiwanese who fought as soldiers in the name of Empire of Japan
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Ahem
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Here we go
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In 1937
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Because of Lugouqiao Incident
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China and Japan went head-to-head
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Japan began the Army Special Volunteers Act in the next year
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enlisting Koreans to join Armed Forces of the Empire of Janpan
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But, Japan hesitated on performing the same act on those Taiwanese
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who belong to the same ethnic group as Chinese
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So Japan only enlisted some servicemen in Taiwan at the beginning
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who were banned from serving in the military
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they only served as farmers to grow food in Shanghai
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Under the impact of Japanese rule for decades and Kominka Movement
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many Taiwanese had craved for the opportunity to prove that
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they were not second-class citizens
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that even though Taiwanese and Japanese don't share the same ethnicity
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Taiwanese were still loyal to Japan
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and thus can devote their heart and soul for the Empire
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Therefore Taiwanese were demanding to join the military
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You can go back to episode four to see more details about this phenomenon
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Until 1942
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Japan finally began the Army Special Volunteers Act in Taiwan
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Taiwanese therefore can be soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army
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Beating other countries up with Japan
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Or be beaten
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There were four hundred twenty thousand people
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fighting for one thousand posts in the military at that time which was quite amazing
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But before launching the Army Special Volunteers Act
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Japanese already knew how good Taiwan Indigenous Peoples are
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They were more physically capable of operating in the tropical and sub-tropical regions
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and coming from a hunter-gatherer culture, would be able to operate with minimal logistics support
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So there came The Takasago Volunteer Army
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Attun Palalin was a Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman
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He was enlisted into the Takasago Volunteer Army and sent to Indonesia at the age of 23
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Also, he changed his name into Teruo Nakamura due to Kominka Movement
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After losing contact with the army
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he hid himself in the jungle and led a life like Robinson Crusoe
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Not until 1974 did the local villagers found him
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The whole world was shocked by the fact that Nakamura not only survived
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But also lived alone in the jungle of Indonesia for thirty years
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Nakamura didn’t even know that WWII was over
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Since a lost Japanese Imperial soldier for so many years was found
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Japanese Government should have been proud and happy for him
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and publish a Japanese version of Robinson Crusoe of Nakamura’s survival in Indonesia
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A series for 20 books and publish a Japanese version of Robinson Crusoe of Nakamura’s survival in Indonesia
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A series for 20 books
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and DVD for free
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However, Japanese Government was quite behind the eight ball
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Cause even though Nakamura was a Japanese Imperial soldier, he is not a Japanese
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but a Taiwan indigenous people
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The young man who was enlisted into the Takasago Volunteer Army
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Should he be sent back to his birthplace Taiwan, but is no longer under Japanese rule
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Or, should he be sent back to Japan, the country he fought for but not his birthplace
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Where should he be
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In 1975
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Attun Palalin decided to go back to his own homeland, Taiwan
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He received nationwide welcoming for his returning
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but his wife was remarried and his child had already become a parent
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And the R.O.C. government of Taiwan
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gave another name for him, which is
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Lee Guang-Hui
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After the chatty talk
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those veterans who had sacrificed themselves for the Empire of Japan
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were put to face a brand new R.O.C. government
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The place once under Japanese rule no longer existed
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They once fought against the R.O.C.
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but now they are part of the R.O.C.
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Switching identity is difficult for them
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Just like Attun Palalin
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who once survived in a jungle alone for thirty years
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who had overcame all sort of injures and diseases
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After he was sent back to Taiwan
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he was not happy at all
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Attun Palalin, Teruo Nakamura or Lee Guang-Hui
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he had no idea what one was his true self
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Shortly in four years
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he dead in the land where he was born but not familiar with anymore
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Taiwanese Imperial Japan veterans
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Abandoned in the gray zone
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Are they capable of letting go the past
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And are they capable of accepting the new identity?
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Okay, the story for today ends here
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bye Okay, the story for today ends here
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bye
