An oral history of their experiences is vital because there are no stories of Taiwanese soldiers of Japan in the existing historical texts. In many biographies of Taiwanese figures from the Japanese occupation era, "often the narrative jumps directly from the 1920s to the postwar period," says Cheng Li-ling.
歷史記憶裡沒有台灣人日本兵的故事，日據時期一些台灣仕紳的生平傳記，很有趣的，「常常也從二○年代直接跳到戰後」，鄭麗玲說。