Given the exuberance with which the Taiwanese people welcomed the Nationalist army, most scholars do not feel that different wartime experiences account for the communal frictions or the nostalgia for Japanese rule that later came about. Instead, the real blow would come three years later with the 228 Incident.
以當年台灣民眾對國軍的熱烈歡迎，學者們大多認為儘管戰爭立場不同，那卻不是日後族群摩擦，以及懷日情結揮之不去的肇因，主要的斲傷，其實來自於接收後第三年爆發的 228 事件。