To get around the governor-general ’ s ban on locals in Taiwan starting up newspapers, in 1923 the Taiwan Minpao appeared in Tokyo, with the distributor for Taiwan situated right next to Ta-an Clinic. Chiang Wei-shui strongly encouraged people to subscribe, and within two years publication volume had surpassed 10,000 copies, pressing on the heels of the three main Japanese papers in Taiwan.
由於總督府不准台灣人在台辦報，一九二三年，「台灣民報」在東京創刊，台灣的總批發處及支局就設在大安醫院隔壁，蔣渭水積極鼓勵民眾訂閱該報，二年後發行量達一萬多份，直逼日人的三大報。