Under Japan's Kohminka Policy (the training of colonial peoples to be Japanese), Aborigines living in Taiwan's mountains were recruited for a "volunteer army" and forced to fight in the Pacific War instigated by Japan.
當時被日本政府稱作「高砂族」的台灣山地原住民，在「皇民化」政策下，接受徵召參加「義勇軍」，被迫捲入日軍發動的太平洋戰爭。