This paper aims to scrutinize the issues contained in Yoshida Shuichi’s full-length novel Road, a story set in Taiwan. Roughly speaking, this novel depicts Japanese people’s journey to Taiwan where they solve the troubles that they faced in Japan. In this novel, as a problematic, Taiwan is imagined to be a "land of healing" for Japanese people. Reading against the book reviews and past literature regarding this novel, this paper deciphers the attitude to history and the gender norms within the novel. As a result, we can observe the following problems: the novel tells/addresses present and future without sincerely facing Japan’s dominance over Taiwan in the past; in addition, based a gendered relationship, it perhaps deliberately positions Taiwan as a partner of Japan, which reflects a continuation of the power relation in the colonial era.