"Taiwanese students studying in Japan in those heady days gradually formed their own national consciousness; ... students from Taiwan no longer simply buried themselves in their books. The spark of resistance against the Japanese began to burst forth," wrote Wu San-lien in his memoirs.
「留日學生在那樣的一個大時代中，逐漸個別產生了民族自覺，… … 台灣留學生不再只潛心課本，抗日的火花開始迸發」，吳三連在書中回憶到。