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TAIWAN

COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2014
Is China losing Taiwan?
Taiwan's president is learning a valuable lesson the hard way: If you want to cozy up to China, it's best not to be too Chinese about it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: opening the floodgates
International brands are no longer shunning the country's biannual collections
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2014
Fishing associations from Taiwan, Japan sign search and rescue agreement
Fishing associations from Taiwan and Japan signed an agreement this week on search and rescue operations at sea to forge the first nongovernmental fishery pact between Taiwan and Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2014
Taiwan regulators delay Tokyo Star sale over breaches
Taiwan is delaying approval of CTBC Financial Holding Co.'s planned ¥52 billion purchase of Japan's Tokyo Star Bank Ltd. after finding internal-control breaches at CTBC's banking unit.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
944,000 foreign travelers visited Japan in January, up 41% on year
An estimated 944,000 foreign travelers visited Japan in January, up 41.2 percent from the same month last year and the most ever for the first month of a year, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 14, 2014
A bridge across the Taiwan Strait
For the first time since the end of China's civil war in 1949, official representatives from Beijing and Taipei sat down at the same table to discuss a shared future.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 8, 2014
Kamikazes live on at their Chiran base
As a child growing up in California in the 1980s, I learned my share of Japanese words. Sushi, which my family would get for a treat on birthdays. Mochi (chewy rice cake), ramen and karaoke — all encountered at the Japanese shopping arcade downtown.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2014
Fukushima No. 1 engineer's warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable
A Japanese engineer who helped build reactor 4 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant says such plants are inherently unstable, urging Taiwan to ditch atomic energy for renewable resources.
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2014
Anti-nuclear groups urge Taiwanese to join reactor makers lawsuit
Two Japanese anti-nuclear groups urged Taiwanese on Tuesday to join their international campaign seeking to abolish a law in Japan that exempts suppliers of nuclear plant equipment from legal responsibilities for accidents.
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2014
Taiwan detects pesticide residue in imported Japanese products
Taiwan health authorities say unsafe levels of pesticide residue has been detected in strawberries and green tea products imported from Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2014
Taiwan welcomes Japanese woman as 8 millionth visitor
Taiwan on Thursday welcomed a Japanese woman as the island's 8 millionth visitor for 2013, showering her with gifts.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2013
Tokyo 'city pop' singer hoping to make it in Taiwan in second attempt
Tokione, who made his singing debut in September in Japan, is hoping to make it big in Taiwan in his second try at success there.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 19, 2013
Macau casino giant eyes Japan foray
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd., the Macau casino operator that made Lui Che-woo Asia's third-richest man, plans to invest in China's Hengqin Island and will consider investing at least $5 billion in Japan and Taiwan if allowed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 11, 2013
Taiwan’s ‘White Shirt Army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties
For decades this island has been bitterly divided into blue and green, the colors of its rival political parties. But that two-toned dichotomy has been upset in recent months by a sea of youths dressed in white.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 7, 2013
Japan Coast Guard seizes Taiwanese trawler fishing illegally off Kagoshima
The Coast Guard has detained a Taiwanese trawler found to be fishing in Japanese waters off Kagoshima Prefecture, Taiwan's Fisheries Agency reported Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 6, 2013
New Taiwan pacts cover trains, drugs, patents, e-deals, rescues
Taiwan and Japan have signed five mostly trade-related pacts in Taipei after the two sides inked a landmark fishery deal in April.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 1, 2013
CTBC buys Tokyo Star, Taiwan Life
Taiwan's CTBC Financial Holding Co. agreed to buy Tokyo Star Bank Ltd. and Taiwan Life Insurance Co. for about $1.4 billion as it seeks to diversify outside its crowded home market.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2013
Tuna body raises 2014 catch quota for Japan
Taiwan and Japan have been allocated bigger catch quotas for southern bluefin tuna next year following two years of strict control under an allowable catch scheme, Taiwan's Fisheries Agency said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2013
Japan top stop for Taiwanese women
Japan was the favorite travel destination for Taiwanese women in August, according to statistics released by the island's Tourism Bureau.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2013
Kan exhorts Taiwan to ditch nuclear power
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan urges Taiwan to close all its reactors and explains how his experience with the Fukushima crisis changed his views on atomic energy.

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