The reason for such a high proportion, explains Mao-feng Tsai, Dean of the School of Foreign Language and Literature at Soochow University, is that Japanese is not a required course in the ROC--unlike English, which is taught from junior high on.
東吳外語學院院長蔡茂豐指出，如此高比例的學生念語言學校，是因為我國現行教育體制中，並無日文必修課程；不像英文，大部分學生都可從初中學起。