The period of "Japanification," when the government went all out in conscripting people on behalf of the war effort, followed the Mukden Incident of September 18th, 1931 and lasted until the retrocession of Taiwan to China in 1945.
從「九一八事變」到一九四五年台灣光復止為「皇民化時期」，這時台人完全「日本人化」，日本全面動員台人參加戰時工作。