1937年7月中日戰爭爆發之前，中日之間敵對狀態經已令局勢非常之緊繃。日本治臺殖民政權雖然未明確噉全面禁止漢文，但係喺戰爭爆發幾個月之前，喺「使用日本語」等同「日本化」嘅政策思考下，迫使主要報紙雜誌等大眾媒體「主動」聲明撤廢「漢文欄」，使用日本語以外嘅文學創作即刻失去大半嘅公開場域。之後隨住所謂皇民化運動嘅推行，啱啱先成為一種理論基礎而出現嘅臺灣話文運動當然淨係有噤聲匿跡一途。
Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, the state of hostilities between China and Japan had made the situation very tense. Although the colonial regime in Japan did not explicitly ban the Chinese language in its entirety, a few months before the outbreak of the war, under the policy of "using Japanese" and "Japan", the mass media such as major newspapers and magazines were forced to "take the initiative" to abolish the "Chinese column", and most of the public space for literary creation other than Japanese was immediately lost. Later, with the implementation of the so-called imperial people's movement, the Taiwan discourse movement, which had just become a theoretical basis, of course, only disappeared.