¡°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 ¡ª and by extension Japan¡¯s ¡ª of what they suffered under Japanese rule for half a century prior to 1945.