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In 2021, Aso, then deputy prime minister, called any invasion of Taiwan by China a "threat to Japan's survival" and said Japan and the U.S. would defend Taiwan together should such an incident happen.
Taiwan's government says the Republic of China is a sovereign state and that Beijing has no right to speak for or represent it given the People's Republic of China has no say in how it chooses its ...
Japan has appointed a serving government official to act as its de facto defence attache in Taiwan, four sources said, elevating security ties in a move likely to anger China, which claims the ...
Japan's victory over Qing dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War resulted in the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, in which Taiwan was ceded to Japan. Taiwan was then ruled by the Empire of Japan until 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army defeated the native aborigine rebels in the Tapani incident of 1915 and the Musha Incident of 1930.
At the time most Taiwanese intellectuals did not wish for Taiwan to be an extension of Japan. "Taiwan is Taiwan people's Taiwan" became a common position for all anti-Japanese groups for the next decade. In December 1920, Lin Hsien-tang and 178 Taiwanese residents filed a petition to Tokyo seeking self-determination. It was rejected. [71]
Japan will continue to work with the United States for peace on the Taiwan Strait regardless of who is in the White House after the November presidential election, Japan's top government ...
In March 1973, the diplomatic relationship between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Spain was suspended, and in August of that same year, the Spanish Government established the Sun Yat-Sen Center in Madrid, to maintain and develop bilateral substantive relations whose name was changed to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in 1991.
The poll also showed a split in opinion on whether the United States would help defend Taiwan. While some 74% believed the U.S. government was likely to "indirectly" help Taiwan by providing food ...