During the 1950s, when Taiwan's industry was just beginning to take off and was short on capital, the financial role of Japanese trading firms was indeed of great assistance to local manufacturers, many of whom also brought in Japanese technology through the firms to raise the quality of their products.
「台灣製」、「日本賣」五○年代是台灣工業起飛的初期，在資金缺乏的情況下，商社的融資功能，的確對我國廠商助益甚多。