Name: Taiwan for Sale? History of Taiwan
Uploaded: 2018-03-23T12:34:09.000Z
Duration: 7 min 38 s
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Today we're going to talk about selling out Taiwan

Goto Shinpei thought Taiwanese people were nothing but a bunch of

To Taiwanese people nowadays, this description is

from bonjouring each other like the French
The Taiwanese were so close

from bonjouring each other like the French

Selling Taiwan incident with Mr. Goto Shinpei

Let's start from how the Japanese Rule in Taiwan started

Japan took over Taiwan according to the Treaty of Shimonoseki

gave the first few governor-generals a big headache

During the first three years of the Japanese Rule

governor-generals changed back to back to back

Even when the fourth governor-general came to office

He could still hear them blaka blaka blakas

The Japanese also got the heebie-jeebies from

Taiwan was hot and wet and filled with cutie little diseases

When Japanese troops were busy invading the south in 1895

But those who died from diseases were up to

You can tell by the numbers how serious the epidemics were

Taiwan's public finance-revenue was less than

when you're spending three times what you make?

The Japanese people that came to Taiwan at that time

from the clean and polite people we know them to be

Some Japanese folks stripped down and strolled around

Let's just say Taiwanese people didn't have a

very high opinion of the Japanese back then

Making it even worse to be colonized by them

They felt like soldiers being sent to the Spratly Islands

Taiwan didn't have any decent schools, hospitals or houses

When people back in Japan started throwing shade at Taiwan

We could've ended up eating croissants for breakfast

Just when Taiwan was about to go full bonjour

Even though Taiwan is a hard little nut to crack

In the end, the Diet decided to give the government one last chance

And Kodama took his right hand man to Taiwan

So most of the time he wasn't even in Taiwan

And the hard work just became Goto Shinpei's job

Goto believed that Taiwan must be ruled by

Flatfish have their eyes on the same side

But sea breams have their eyes on opposite sides

How could you force a flatfish to grow its eyes on both sides?

So let Japanese be Japanese, and Taiwanese be Taiwanese

There's no need to impose Japan's rules on Taiwan

Goto decided to take understand the habits of the Taiwanese population

He started with a bunch of investigations