In the 1930s, the Governor-General’s Office was especially focused on the economic independence of farming and fishing villages, and initiated the Hamlet Revitalization Movement. This policy was meant to comprehensively transform communities and promote social education to build a new order in the countryside. After the war began, the movement evolved into a system mobilizing support for the war effort. Taiwanese people, enduring a tightening supply of essentials and goods, while facing enormous cultural pressures due to the Kominka (Japanization ) Movement, were encouraged to abandon their mother tongue and original names, or even to risk their lives on the battlefield.