However, while Yao was at the height of his creative powers, his career was cut short by World War II, when the Japanese colonial government assigned him to Hong Kong as a translator. When the war ended, his two boxloads of Japanese army-pay promissory notes became worthless paper.
就在姚讚福創作力正旺盛的時候，卻因為二次世界大戰而中斷，被日本政府徵調到香港當翻譯官。