At this time the first generation of Taiwanese to receive modern education was reaching maturity. Young people graduating from the colonial medical school and the Japanese-language teachers college in Taiwan often met in secret, and students in Taiwan and Taiwanese students in Japan stayed in contact, lending each other moral support.
此時台灣島內，接受現代教育的新一代已經成長，台北醫學校、國語學校師範部的青年學生，在台灣本島與日本留學生遙相呼應，常秘密集會。