When he first came to the town of Nagura in Ishigaki in 1939, there were already more than 100 households there, with nearly 1000 Taiwanese, and it was already a real "Taiwan Village."
他在一九三九年來到石垣島的名藏村時，當地已有上百戶、近千名台灣人，是名副其實的「台灣村」。