Ask Japan about China
There is an interesting argument about democracy in Taiwan.
Why is Taiwan only able to establish real democracy among Chinese-dominant nations, namely Taiwan, mainland China, Singapore, and Hong Kong?
Most experts think that Taiwan's ex-President Mr. Lee Teng-hui (Ri Touki in Japanese), who had been educated in the Empire of Japan, introduced democracy in earnest to cope with Han people who had fled the Chinese continent to Taiwan, having been driven by the Chinese Communist Party to hold hegemony of the Taiwan island in late 1950's.
But, truth must be that Taiwan was part of the Empire of Japan for 60 years before 1945.
Even today, to defense Taiwan, the Japanese Government allows the U.S. to have huge military bases in the Okinawa island, rather close to Taiwan, since the Japanese Constitution virtually forbids Japan to join Taiwan for armed defense against China.
According to the recent poll conducted in Taiwan, 52% of the Taiwanese like Japan, 8% the U.S. and 5% China.
Even today, to show respect for the Empire of Japan, Taiwanese people show good wishes to Tokyo 10 times more than to Beijing.
SECTION I: Confucius at Pinch
Confucius and his followers were leaving a country to avoid involvement in war, in ancient China 500 years before the era of Jesus Christ.
They were walking a long way through barren land while their foods were almost consumed out.
Getting so tired and hungry, they took a rest, lying on the ground. Everybody was depressed so bad in a state of disappointment and misery.
Then, a senior member of the followers of Confucius suddenly stood up and walked to his master sitting on a rock, asking loudly and emotionally, "Master, does even a master get into a painful situation like this sometime?"
Every other follower got alerted, since the attitude of the senior follower violated moral codes their Master had taught.
Confucius answered loudly and firmly, "Yes, even a master gets into a painful situation like this sometime. But, while being in a painful situation like this, a master never gets upset."
Every other follower got more alerted, since the attitude of Confucius reinforced moral codes he had taught.
Then, suddenly but slowly the senior follower raised his hands and uplifted his leg to start dancing very leniently. Raising and waiving his arms and hands and extending up his leg apparently leisurely, he continued to dance before his great master and other followers, all being hungry and tired fleeing a long way from a warring country as a band of great school of morality in ancient China.
I don't know if the senior follower was crying while dancing so foolishly, since he must have been so hungry and thirsty or he must have been so filled in his soul.
Or it might have been just a performance as an apology to his great moral master.
If you cannot find such a master and a follower in today's China, the only place you can find them must be Japan of today.
Indeed, moral superiority of American religion over Islam might be needed for America's victory in the War on Terror having been triggered by Muslim insurgents back in 1990's.
SECTION II: Japan as No. 1 in Semiconductor
Japan has the largest capacity to produce chips or wafers from which chip materials are cut out.
Semiconductor chips are vital elements in today's material life based on electronics.
PCs, TVs, cellular phones, cars, jet planes, and every industrial machine use IC chips in their electronic circuits.
In this context, semiconductors are positioned next to crude oil and iron in terms of key factors of our material civilization.
Asian Big 3, Taiwan, Korea, and China, have remarkably succeeded in developing this technology, following the success of Japan.
However, it is no surprise, since East Asia has been cultivated intellectually more than Europe and America with tradition of Buddhism, Confucianism, etc. and Kanji letters in these 2500 years.
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Before the Pearl Harbor Attack, China was the main concern for overseas-minded Americans.
Chinese philosophy was attractive and understandable; Chinese dishes were attractive; and Chinese women were appealing.
Even Rockefeller had invested much into China before WWII, since China looked like going to offer huge fortune to Americans with interest in China.
Yet, it was the United States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy that gathered in Washington in 1922 for the Washington Naval Treaty, resulting in allowable ownership ratios of naval ships: 5：5：3：1.75：1.75.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty
Indeed, ordinary Americans had a too romantic image on China, while the Empire of Japan was allowed to have naval ships in quantity equivalent to 60% of America's or the U.K.'s.
I mean that ordinary Americans should have though that China would surely challenge the Empire of Japan sooner or later, because of their historical pride.
I also mean that you cannot unilaterally blame the Empire of Japan for the Japan-China War from 1937 to 1945 and the Japan-America War from 1941 to 1945.
(http://8.health-life.net/~susa26/natumero/41-45/tabibitoyo.html )
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