The Nationalist government's Taiwan policy at that time was to reverse the Japanization of the island, and shortly after the end of the war it banned the use of Japanese. Authors who wrote in Japanese lost their medium, and the Taiwanese people, most of whom were as yet unfamiliar with Mandarin, became effectively illiterate. In short, the policy wrought cultural havoc on Taiwanese society.
當時國民政府的台灣政策，是希望被日本殖民統治過的台灣「去日本化」，不久就下令禁用日文，日治時代的日文作家被迫失去園地，不諳中文的台灣民眾也淪為文盲，此一政策可說致使台灣社會歷經一場文化浩劫。