Taiwan history/Taiwan in World War II

After Japan started invading China, Southeast Asia and the America, Taiwan, as a colony of Japan, automatically entered the war.

Affect

Military

Taiwan Indigenous Volunteer Troops

More than 200,000 Taiwanese men served in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. Around 2,000 Taiwanese women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military system. Taiwan's strategic location along the resource logistics route to Southeast Asia and the Japanese home islands made it a key operational hub. Japan used Taiwanese airfields to launch strikes on the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Starting in late 1943, American began bombing Taiwan until the end of the war.

Culture

The Japanese colonial government banned Chinese-language sections in newspapers and prohibited the use of local dialects. Most of the political movement was forced to end.Japan pressured Taiwanese families to abandon their Chinese surnames and adopt Japanese ones.Literature, theater, and music were strictly censored and repurposed to serve the war effort. Pop music and traditional opera were replaced by patriotic military marches.