Taiwan holds event to remember influential Japanese engineer
May 9, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Taiwan s Vice President Chen Chien-jen offers flowers at a memorial park in Tainan dedicated to Japanese architect and hydraulic engineer Yuichi Hatta at a ceremony on May 8, 2021, the 79th anniversary of his death.(Kyodo) TAIPEI (Kyodo) Taiwan held activities on Saturday to remember Japanese architect Yoichi Hatta who designed the Chianan Canal, Wushantou Reservoir and Wushantou Dam in Greater Tainan in southern Taiwan a century ago. As this year marks the centennial of the start of the canal s construction, events were held at a memorial park dedicated to Hatta in Tainan on Saturday, the 79th anniversary of the death of the Japanese engineer.