shake mine, and holding my hand tightly, he said, "How are you, Mr.Yang?"

     "How are you?" I repeated the greeting as if I was entranced. I'd never met him before. Tanaka hadn't explained to me that we were going to the park to meet with Ito, but when I looked at the expression on Tanaka's face, I knew that this was Ito. I felt very close to him.

     "I, too, have lived in Taiwan for some time. Do you like the Japanese?" he asked me, without hesitating.

     I couldn't express my views to him honestly right away. He said he'd lived in Taiwan for some time. I thought that I could like him. I'd never met anyone like him in Taiwan before. After thinking for a while, I said, "Tanaka is very nice. I like him very much. I never met anyone like him in Taiwan."

     "You're right. The majority of the laborers in japan are like Mr. Tanaka. They are all very polite to others, and they do not have superiority complexes. Japanese workers are also against the Japanese government policies that oppress Taiwanese. Those who treat the Taiwanese cruelly are the privileged Japanese. They are like the newspaper boss who cheated you out of your security deposit and then fired you. The majority of Japanese who are in Taiwan are those kind of people. They not only treat you Taiwanese like that, but in Japan they do the same kind of thing. In - 100 - this world today, these kinds of people try to take advantage of others. They depend on other's labor to make a future for themselves. They use tricks and other methods to put others to death, to achieve their goals without worrying about anyone else. They use all different methods to oppress us and to restrict our freedom in order to achieve their goals."

     Each of his words rang a bell in my mind. I felt as if I was learning more now than I had learned in the six years I'd spent in school. The magistrate in our town was Taiwanese. My own brother was Taiwanese as well. But for their own benefit, they had attached themselves to the Japanese, they allowed themselves to become "running dogs". They had cheated and opressed the villagers, and caused us much hardship.