A little more than a year after leaving Tachia, the family moved to Kaohsiung, but before Peng could graduate from junior high school there, he packed his bags once again, moving this time to Japan.
過了年餘，彭明敏又舉家遷回高雄，而高雄中學還沒畢業，彭明敏又收拾行囊，遠赴日本展開留學生涯。