A: There are two reasons. One is that Taiwan history is confined largely to the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, which most Japanese scholars are not very interested in.
答：台灣研究在日本不受重視的理由有二：一是因為要研究台灣歷史得從中國明清兩代歷史開始入手，對日本「東洋學」研究者來說，這兩段歷史似乎是他們不大感興趣的範疇，間接影響了大家的投入。