1.   By the time Mao was speaking, Taiwan had been a Japanese colony longer than Korea had.

2.   For the first half of this century, though, Taiwan was a Japanese colony.

3.   Korea was a Japanese colony then, and Japan was at war and needed young men such as Choe for their factories and construction sites.

4.   The supply of forced labor from the Korean peninsula, a Japanese colony at the time, was drying up.

5.   Beijing wants clear assurances that the agreement will not be aimed at China or thwart its ambitions to reunite Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and U.S. ally.

6.   Beijing particularly wants clear assurances that the agreement is not aimed at thwarting Chinese ambitions to reunite Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and U.S. ally.

7.   But the winner then was not really Japanese -- he was a Korean running for Japan, since Korea was at that time a Japanese colony.

8.   During his youth, Taiwan was a Japanese colony and he grew up speaking Japanese.

9.   During his childhood, Taiwan was a Japanese colony and Lee has said he grew up thinking that he was more Japanese than ethnic Chinese.

10.   Tens of thousands of Koreans had been sent to Japan as laborers during World War II, when Korea was a Japanese colony.