Taipei exhibition focuses on quake
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Staff writer, with CNA
An exhibition and music festival are to be held later this month in Taipei to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 20,000 people in Japan, the country’s representative office in Taiwan said yesterday.
The exhibition, running from Wednesday next week to March 21, would feature photographs of scenes immediately after the disaster in the northeast of the country and pictures of what those areas look like today, the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association said.
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TAITUNG, Taiwan - Deep bass kicks and nose flute melodies pulsated from the outdoor stage framed by lush greenery just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw stopped singing, then switched to Mandarin. This was an ode to the ancestral land that he revered, he explained - the land on which the crowd of 200 Chinese-speaking Taiwanese now stood. We have had many colonists who have come here, Sangpuy said, not delving too deeply into the painful history of his Puyuma Katratripulr tribe. But Taiwan has always been the same, he added, nourishing us, protecting us.