 For example, in celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of war in 2005, the cultural bureau of KMT stronghold Taipei held a series of talks in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall regarding the war and post-war developments, while the KMT held its own exhibit in the KMT headquarters.Whereas the KMT won the presidential election in 2008, the ROC government resumed commemorating the war.Several thousand Japanese who were sent as colonizers to Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia were left behind in China.