Taiwan's economic miracle was helped by the mass of money that the fleeing Nationalists brought with them, by the infrastructure already in place in the island after a half-century of Japanesecolonisation, by an American presence underwriting Taiwan's defence, and by ready markets in both Japan and the United States.
You have to scrape a bit to reveal some older prejudices: the British conviction that the Japanese are capable of unusual cruelty and the Japanese conviction that the British are intolerably self-righteous about their own history of conquest and colonisation in Asia.