A: Frankly speaking, Japanese research on the history of the South Seas region during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is slanted toward the operations of the Dutch East India Company because of its significance for the later rise of capitalism. My research also sets out by examining the company's operations on Taiwan, and our research methods are not very different.
我還記得大學時，史學科同學曾組成台灣史研究會，參與的約有五、六人，曾深入台灣村落作碑文調查，台灣島上的幾個地方，宜蘭、基隆、淡水、新竹、台中、台南我都去過。