Although Japan has a strong heritage of China studies, scholars there have never accorded much importance to the academic world on Taiwan, partly because of a predisposition toward the "Greater China" ideology of the mainland and partly because of an inadequate understanding of Taiwan's political, economic and cultural accomplishments.
日本雖向有漢學研究的傳統，但是學者一直不重視台灣學術界，一方面因為日本學界素來有以大陸為正統的「大中國主義」傾向；另一方面，日本學界對台灣政經文化界並不瞭解，總以為那是一片學術冷清之地，因而造成日本學界的漠視。