宣扬“脱亚入欧”和“大亚细亚主义”的日本殖民者曾将其殖民扩张美化为“文明的义战”,宣称日本的统治将使台湾民众“从地狱来到乐园”,当前某些人也不断鼓吹日本带给台湾“现代化”的论调。日据时期台湾新文学以现实主义的描写撕破这一谎言:法律苛严和贪赃枉法令台湾民众饱受欺凌;殖民经济导致台湾农民破产;“皇民化运动”则难以更改台湾人民固守的中华传统文化和民族身份认同。 Japanese colonialists who advocated “taking Asia to Asia” and “Asianism” once beautified their colonial expansion as “a war of civilizations,” claiming that Japanese rule will allow Taiwan’s people to “go to paradise from hell,” and at present some People have also constantly advocated Japan’s argument that Taiwan will “bring about modernization.” During the period of Japanese occupation, Taiwan’s new literature broke the lies with the description of realism: the law was harsh and corrupt and ruined the bullying of Taiwan’s citizens; the colonial economy led to the bankruptcy of Taiwanese peasants; and the “imperial civilization movement” made it hard to change what the Taiwanese people cling to Chinese traditional culture and national identity.