Takasago--the reformed "primitives" Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 triggered war in the Pacific and drew Taiwan officially into WWⅡ, the ravages of which reached not only the island's plains dwellers, but also the aboriginal tribes of the mountainous interior.
一九四一年十二月，日軍偷襲珍珠港，掀起太平洋戰爭，台灣正式捲入二次大戰的戰火，戰爭的利爪，不僅波及平地的人們，也伸進深山原住民部落。