Original sentence: After the retreat to Taiwan, the Nationalists took steps to preserve traditional Chinese culture and suppress the local Taiwanese culture.Some women from Taiwan, like their counterparts from the Japanese mainland and Korea, were forced to serve as comfort women, or sex slaves, for the Japanese imperial army during WWII.The majority of Taiwanese and Chinese usually combine the secular moral teachings of Confucianism with whatever religions they are affiliated with.This period of Japanese occupation was marked by suppression of local resistance movements by the Japanese, and the subjugation of the local populace into manual labor in various factories and plantations set up by the occupying force to produce exports to the Japanese mainland
Edited sentence: After the retreat to Taiwan, the Nationalists took steps to preserve ancient Chinese culture and suppress the local Taiwanese culture.Many women from Taiwan, like their counterparts from the Japanese mainland and Korea, were forced to serve as comfort women, or sex slaves, for the Japanese imperial army during WWII.Notably, the subjugated Taiwanese soldiers took part in the infamous Nanking massacre and other atrocities against the mainland Chinese populace throughout the Japanese occupation period.The unprecedented influx of human and monetary capital, brought to Taiwan by KMT as part of its retreat from the mainland, laid the foundation for Taiwan's later dramatic economic development.The vast majority of Taiwanese and Chinese usually combine the secular moral teachings of Confucianism with whatever religions they are affiliated with.This period of Japanese occupation was marked by brutal suppression of local resistance movements by the Japanese, and the forced subjugation of the local populace into slave labor in various factories and plantations set up by the occupying force to produce exports to the Japanese mainland.To this day (as of 2006), the Japanese government continues to deny this wartime atrocity