Then his family contacted him from Taiwan and warned him to stay away. Taiwan was then in the iron grip of the White Terror regime, and they feared for his safety. So he made a life for himself in Japan, and there he has stayed for the past half century.
而當時台灣正逢白色恐怖時期，家屬擔心他的安全勸阻他返鄉，結果這一停留竟達半個世紀之久。