Matayoshi believes that in so doing, the Japanese government was laying the groundwork for the colonization of Taiwan on the grounds that the island had to be civilized. Matayoshi has often been back to the site where the shipwrecked officers and crew from Miyako Island were killed. "I always go to the place where the victims were beheaded.
又吉認為，當這種「台灣認識」普及以後，日本就能以台灣為「未開化之地」的理由，為將台灣「文明化」而列入殖民版圖。