The Forgotten Souls: Where Are Taiwanese Soldiers in History?

Elite Aboriginal soldiers, known as the Takasago Volunteers, were
reputed for their supreme jungle survival skills and were fearless and
fearsome. Most of them (there were between 4,000 and 8,000 in total)
were sent to Papua New Guinea and suffered some of the highest casualty
rates. According to post-war estimates, 90 percent of the Aboriginal
soldiers who saw combat duty there were killed.

Meanwhile, more than 8,000 Taiwanese children between the age of 12 and 20, known as shonenko, manufactured fighter planes at a naval factory in Japan between 1943 and 1945. Some of them died in Allied bombings.