Taiwan President Lai Ching-te shows solidarity with Japan, has sushi lunch!

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Mudan incident​

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The Mudan incident of 1871 (Chinese: 八瑤灣事件; Japanese: 宮古島島民遭難事件[2] or 琉球漂流民殺害事件[3]) was the massacre of 54 Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered into the central part of Taiwan after being shipwrecked off Taiwan's southeastern coast. Twelve survivors were rescued by local Han people and were later returned to Miyako Island in the Ryukyu Islands.
Because the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Qing Chinaas well as within the Japanese sphere of influence (to whom they also had a tributary relationship), the massacre was used as a pretext for Japan to invade southern Taiwan in 1874 to avenge "Japanese nationals" and subsequently annex the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879.

 

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https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/10/27/0000058828

Fri, Oct 27, 2000​

By Chuang Chi-ting / STAFF REPORTER

Wushe memories highlight modern dilemmas​

The 70th anniversary of a massacre of Aboriginals by Japanese colonialists has provoked reflection on how much the plight of Taiwan's native peoples has changed
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As today's 70th anniversary of the Wushe Incident ( 霧社事件), approached, wide discussion about the event has been brought into the media spotlight. The incident, in which Aboriginal people on the island violently protested against Japanese colonial rule, is also known as the Paran Incident, after the name of the Wushe area in the local Aboriginal tongue.

This anniversary is different, however, in that indigenous people themselves are conspicuous by their efforts to participate in the discussion and review history from their perspectives. They are reflecting on what the incident means to them, while, as they would have it, interpretation of the story has previously been the exclusive preserve of Han people and Japanese, whose power, they say, gives them a form of "cultural hegemony."

The indigenous people have urged the government to mark today as a national holiday commemorating the incident.

The Wushe incident

Occurring in 1930, the Wushe Incident has been portrayed ever since the KMT regime withdrew to Taiwan in 1949 as a righteous case of Taiwan residents resisting the yoke of their colonial masters.

The incident was triggered by oppression by Japanese: the snatching of lands from indigenous people, the enslavement of Aboriginal men, and the mistreatment of their women.

Tribal leader Mona Rudo, center, who led the Wushe Incident.​

PHOTO: COURTESY OF DENG SHIANG-YANG
On Oct. 27 1930, over 300 Aborigines attacked Japanese who had gathered at a sports event in Wushe and killed over 130 of them. It took the Japanese two months to completely quell the uprising.

The Japanese later massacred surviving members of the families of Aboriginal participants, forcefully expelling the rest from their home territories.

Moving to assert their right to interpret the Wushe Incident, Aborigines spoke up at an international symposium last weekend, providing their view of the event and making it no longer the sole prerogative of Han or Japanese or a "propaganda tool to ensure the people's solidarity in defending the government from foreign forces."

Some 216 Aboriginal people were killed in a massacre following the Wushe Incident. Japanese-recruited Aboriginal militias took 101 heads and returned them to the Japanese for bounty payments.​

PHOTO: COURTESY OF DENG SHIANG-YANG

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