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TAIWAN

Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 13, 2014
Okazaki's grapes, Ieyasu legacy reel in tourists
The city of Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture this year is doubling efforts to attract visitors from its neighbors in East Asia, especially China and Taiwan.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2014
Beijing strangely silent as rival beefs up outpost
Taiwan is building a $100 million port next to an airstrip on the lone island it administers in the disputed South China Sea, a move that is drawing hardly any reaction from the most assertive player in the bitterly contested waters — China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2014
Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam
Up to 21 people were killed in Vietnam, a doctor said on Thursday, and a huge foreign steel project was set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the center of the country a day after arson and looting in the south.
JAPAN / History
Apr 19, 2014
Taking a maiden stab at expansionism in Taiwan
Taiwan is Japan's forgotten colony.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2014
Evolving tale of two Chinas
The fear that China may try to take over their island is what prompted Taiwanese students last month to protest a services trade pact with China then stage a 'sunflower' sit-in of Taiwan's parliament.
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2014
Taiwan's 'sunflowers' bloom
A student-led occupation of the Taiwanese government's legislature to protest a cross-strait trade agreement — which is the centerpiece of President Ma Ying-jeou's political and economic agenda — enters its third week.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2014
Anti-China protest exposes Taiwan's nationalist fault line
A chaotic sit-in to protest against a trade deal with China has shut down Taiwan's parliament and exposed deep divisions over the island's identity after seven decades of living apart from its vast, undemocratic rival across the strait.
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
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.
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.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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