The situation is somewhat different in Japan, a close neighbor of Taiwan and its former colonial master for half a century, which has a more complex emotional relationship with the island. The Japanese academic community has long paid close attention to non-literary aspects of the Taiwan experience, and it is against this background that Taiwan literature is now getting more attention.
曾為台灣宗主國半世紀的鄰國日本，和台灣更有著恩怨情仇、濃得化不開的關係，日本學界對台灣一直有著相當程度的關注，在此背景下，日譯版的台灣文學更受矚目。