Taipei, July 31 (CNA) Japan's top representative to Taipei said Sunday that one of his priorities is to help Taiwan gain accession to a regional trade bloc in which his country is a founding member, as he believes it was the wish of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (JTEA) is prioritizing helping Taiwan gain entry into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Japanese Representative to Taiwan Hiroyasu Izumi said yesterday.
Joining the trade agreement would be important to “maintaining the status quo [in the Taiwan Strait] and ensuring Taiwan’s survival,” association head Izumi said at a forum organized by the Lee Teng-hui Foundation in Taipei to discuss Taiwan-Japan relations.
Izumi cited a discussion that former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) had with Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba, in which Lee told the writer that Taiwanese have a sadness that could only be resolved through developing
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Taipei, July 18 (CNA) Around 15,000 people in Taiwan have visited the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (JTEA) over the past week to pay their respects to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated during an election campaigning event in Nara, Japan on July 8, the de facto Japanese embassy said late Sunday.
About 15,000 people have visited the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (JTEA) over the past week to pay their respects to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated during a campaign event in Nara, Japan, on July 8, Japan’s de facto embassy in Taiwan said late on Sunday.
The association wrote on Facebook that 12,750 people visited its Taipei headquarters from Monday last week to Sunday to mourn the death of Abe, while another 1,693 paid their respects at its Kaohsiung branch from Monday last week to Wednesday.
Memorial venues were set up at both locations for people to pay their respects