Though Chinese have always attached great importance to family names, after 50 years of Japanese rule in Taiwan many Chinese traditional concepts had weakened; moreover the Japanese offered incentives (more rations) to those households which adopted Japanese appellations.
中國人原本有很強烈的姓氏觀念，但一來日本在台灣已經統治近五十年了，很多中國傳統觀念變得較為淡薄；二來日本人以利誘之，改成日本姓名的家庭，戰時配給比較多。