Several noted Japanese sinologists, such as Mizoguchi Yuzo of Tokyo University and Ochi Shigeaki of Kyoto University, have visited Taiwan, and "that would have been practically impossible a few years ago," according to Chang Yen-hsien, an assistant researcher in the Institute of the Three Principles of the People at Academia Sinica.
不少漢學者，如東大藝術史教授溝口雄三、京大東洋文化所學者越智重明都曾訪台。「幾年以前，這幾乎是不大可能的事情」，中研院三民主義研究所副研究員張炎憲說。