: The citizenship process was complex and time-consuming. Shiryu Otaki, who came to Ishigaki in his teens, was successful only after the application had been entered for four or five years. Kanei Goya, who was born in Ishigaki and whose parents had settled here during the era of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, was nineteen years old before he and his parents all received citizenship.
入籍的過程反覆耗時，十多歲才來石垣島的王志隆固然申請了四、五年才成功，就連父母在日據時代來此，本人也在石垣島出生的吳屋寬永，也是十九歲時才和父母一起入籍。