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Last year, the Taiwan Railways Administration imposed a ban on public sitting in the lobby of Taipei Main Station, citing COVID-19 concerns. This sitting ban raised urgent questions: Who has claims over this space? What might be the historical and ideological forces shaping the usage of this space? And why is Taipei Main Station associated with the signs of “Free China” and the rise of “Little Indonesia”?
In 2016, Taiwan's supreme court ruled that a 228 victim family from Okinawa had the right to receive government compensation. Taiwan watcher Tsuyoshi Nojima asks what Japan can learn from the ruling.
Veteran journalist Nojima Tsuyoshi says Japan paid more attention to the 2018 local elections in Taiwan than any other. He gives three reasons why Taiwan’s populist wave will have a big impact on Taiwan-Japan relations.
One of Taiwan's most astute political watchers dissects the results of the 2018 local elections.
A year and a half before the 228 Massacre, the Chinese Nationalists were busy robbing Taiwan in broad daylight.
Kaohsiung was supposed to be a DPP stronghold. So why did Kaohsiung residents plunk for the KMT’s Han Kuo-yu in this year’s election?
