Meanwhile, back in Taiwan, "The period of the Sino-Japanese War happened to coincide with the most intensive efforts on the part of the Japanese at assimilating the Taiwanese as subjects of the Japanese empire," says Chou Wan-yao, a researcher at the Institute for Taiwan History of the Academia Sinica.
「在中國對日抗戰期間，台灣正處於日本皇民化運動緊鑼密鼓進行時期，」中研院台灣歷史研究所研究員周婉窈扼要地對照出兩邊迥然不同的處境。