How A Wartime Documentary Explores Taiwanese Soldiers' Involvement in WWII

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In Asia, the conclusion to the Second World War redrew the continent's borders and left many people with conflicting identities and loyalties. In Taiwan, governed as a model colony of Japan's growing empire, soldiers and civilian bureaucrats worked alongside imperial forces in a brutal expansion across Southeast Asia. Documentary film director Lau Kek Huat joins this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out to explore the dark history of Taiwan's World War II involvement, and how his film “From Island to Island” aims to bring memories of the past to a younger generation of Taiwanese.