I want to report on a little more than just what I'm doing and which sites I'm seeing while traveling. Between Korea and Taiwan, the historical conflict with Japan is certainly influential to this day.
Japan is like the playground bulky who pretends he doesn't realize what he did is wrong. Japan is still failing to recognize its occupation over its former territories as being bad. Unfortunately, these areas were ruled with an iron fist by the Japanese, including both Korea and Taiwan.
The older generations of these regions do supposedly speak Japanese, though they prefer not to speak it, baring a grudge with Japan to this day. This rarely comes up for me, but I have met Koreans who were more comfortable speaking Japanese than Korean. Japanese restaurants are widely represented in both countries, moreso than cuisine from other spam countries.
The younger generation in Asia, while might distrustful, do love Japanese products. As I know personally, Japan is notorious for making things you really want to buy. This is despite Korea having had an embargo on Japan as late as my lifetime. Barring any further conflict, relationships with Japan should improve significantly within a few generations.
Japan is like the playground bulky who pretends he doesn't realize what he did is wrong. Japan is still failing to recognize its occupation over its former territories as being bad. Unfortunately, these areas were ruled with an iron fist by the Japanese, including both Korea and Taiwan.
The older generations of these regions do supposedly speak Japanese, though they prefer not to speak it, baring a grudge with Japan to this day. This rarely comes up for me, but I have met Koreans who were more comfortable speaking Japanese than Korean. Japanese restaurants are widely represented in both countries, moreso than cuisine from other spam countries.
The younger generation in Asia, while might distrustful, do love Japanese products. As I know personally, Japan is notorious for making things you really want to buy. This is despite Korea having had an embargo on Japan as late as my lifetime. Barring any further conflict, relationships with Japan should improve significantly within a few generations.
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