Commenting on that period, Tiway Sayion says, "The Japanese brought three things with them wherever they went-post offices, Shinto shrines and primary schools." He notes that the Japanese Imperial education of those days was very thorough. All the children who lived in the mountains attended primary school and spoke only Japanese in class. Tiway Sayion says he never questioned his identity as a citizen of Japan's "China Island."
「日本人足跡所到之處，有三樣東西也隨即跟來──派出所、神社和小學」，李來旺說，日本當時的皇民化教育相當徹底，山區孩子一律要上學，課堂上全部講日語，而他也從不懷疑自己日本支那島國民的身份。