The other reason preventing many Japanese scholars from pursuing the study of Taiwan history is a feeling they can never surpass the work done by the great scholar Inou Yoshinori, who practically founded the field during his tenure at Tohoku Imperial University with his in-depth studies of the customs and habits of the island's early population.
另外，台灣史研究在日治時代出現了一位很偉大的學者伊能嘉矩，他所寫的「台灣蕃政志」對台灣舊有的風俗習慣和蕃族的調查有很深入的研究，一般日本學者覺得再研究也不會超過他的範疇，因此不大願意再投入了。