She was completely unconnected to politics in the occupation era, and even at the end of that period, when the colonial government began compulsory "Japanization" of Taiwanese, she made no effort to make political capital out of her refusal to adopt a Japanese name for herself.
日據時代她與政治毫無瓜葛，日據晚期日本政府推行「皇民化運動」時，她也不願改日本名，藉以求得任何政治利益。