"Actually it was all lies," states Lin Heng-tao. Overall, the impression Taiwanese were given about the origins of the fighting was that "China is poor and backward, and Japan is fighting only to rescue China and safeguard peace in East Asia.
「說穿了全是謊話」，林衡道回憶，當時台人接收到的訊息約略是：「中國貧窮落後，日本係為了拯救中國、保衛東亞的和平而戰。