It is not Mandarin Chinese nor Taiwanese but a variant form of Japanese that is spoken by villagers at a general store in a thickly forested mountain valley in eastern Taiwan.Aohua village in Nanao township in Yilan County is home to indigenous Atayal people, whose language stems from the days when Japan pushed thorough Japanese-language education and promoted Japanization during its 50-year colonial rule of the island up to 1945.Sicyang Isaw, 55, who runs the store, said, "My father repeatedly told us before he died that Japanese people did us two good things and two bad things.""They help…READ FULL ARTICLE
