On December 13, 2012 thousands of people in Nanjing and so many others from everywhere were gathering at the Memorial Hall in remembrance of an atrocious human tragedy taken place 75 years ago.

On the same day of 1937, the invading Japanese soldiers who just occupied the city, then the capital of China, started a six-weeks-long massacre on POW's and innocent civilians.  The victims were shot by machine guns, stabbed by bayonets, and even buried alive, and approximately three hundred thousands were slaughtered, all told.  During that stint of bloody killing campaign, a life passed away every 12 seconds in average.   The rape of Nanjing has since become an indelible pain and humiliation in the depth of hearts to all Chinese.

However, most ethnic Chinese in Taiwan don't think that way.  According to one of the news media, on December 13 the speaker of Legislation Yuan, the minister of Foreign Affairs and several other high-rank officials went to Japan's quasi-embassy to pay homage to the Emperor of Japan, wishing him a happy birthday in advance.  Will the U.S. and France officially wish Queen Elizabeth a happy birthday?  Canada and New Zealand may do so, for at least the Queen is still their nominal head.  Is Taiwan, or Republic of China, a vassal state of Japan?  Why do people in Taiwan make a diplomatic gaffle with such an absurd behavior, particularly on that sensible date?  Chances are the only answer to those questions is, subconsciously, those guys don't regard themselves as Chinese, and blame it to the Heaven why not they be Japanese instead.