In order to develop highly skilled "daguerreotypes," Japan had established portrait classes and schools beginning in 1915. The Toyo School of Photography, established in 1929 to develop talents for the photography industry and to support portraitists, had the most Taiwan-origin students enrolled of any school.
日本為了培育高等攝影人才，自一九一五年起先後成立寫真科系與學校，其中，成立於一九二九年的「東洋寫真學校」，是日本東洋寫真工業株式會社為了培育攝影工業人才及營養寫真師而設立的學校，也是我台籍人士入學最多的學校。