A voice for Taiwanese Besides official Japanese channels, another source of information for Taiwanese was the Xinmin Bao, a Chinese language journal which was widely seen as the spokesman of the four million Taiwanese. At its peak in 1930, the Xinmin Bao sold 50-60,000 copies per issue; its readership consisted mainly of Taiwan's relatively small strata of well-educated persons.
日本官方的宣傳管道之外，當時台人接受戰爭訊息的來源還有被稱為「代表四百萬台灣人言論立場」的漢文「台灣新民報」。新民報在一九三○年盛況時，發刊五、六萬份，讀者群是少數的台籍菁英。