However, the Japanese government refused to pay compensation on the basis that there were no diplomatic relations between Japan and Taiwan, and finally paid uniform choikin (condolence money) of two million yen per person in 1987, more than forty years after the end of the war.
しかし日本は国交が無いことなどを理由に補償を拒み、戦後40年以上経った1987年に、漸く一律200万円の弔慰金が支払われた。