In the years just after World War Ⅱ, Japan was Taiwan's largest customer for rice, sugar, bananas, pineapples, and other agricultural products, and Japanese trading firms had their hands deeply in the import of fiber and the export of fabrics during the period when Taiwan was developing its light industry.
光復初期，米、糖、香蕉、鳳梨等農產品的外銷，日本是最大的買主。在輕工業發展時期，棉花進口、紡織品出口，日本商社都要過一手。