Japanese Prime Minister Kan Yoshihide recently met with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the Taiwan Strait issue, and for the first time in 52 years, Taiwan was mentioned in a joint statement, and the “friendly relations” between Taiwan and Japan then became the focus of attention. Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Zheng Yunpeng posted on Facebook in the evening that he found that the title of the business card of Japan’s representative in Taiwan, Quan Yutai, was “ambassador”, exclaiming that he had never noticed this in the past, and asked curiously, “The previous title was ‘ambassador’? ‘?”
Japan currently has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, so similar to the United States, Britain and other countries, through the form of private organizations to send diplomatic personnel to Taiwan, the title of “representative”, and does not use the “ambassador”, “minister The title is “representative” and not “ambassador” or “minister” which are official diplomatic titles.
Zheng Yunpeng 0 night in FB posting that he suddenly found Quan Yutai’s business card, the full title of “Public Interest Foundation Japan Taiwan Exchange Association Taipei Office Representative”, but the center of the written “Ambassador Quan Yutai”, the front of the name specifically added this The “Ambassador” notation in front of his name made his eyes light up. “I hadn’t noticed before that the representative of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association had been ‘Ambassador’ from the previous title? Is it from the new logo, new business card?”
According to the official website of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, Izumi Yutai has diplomatic experience posted to several countries, and served as Japan’s ambassador to Bangladesh before he was appointed to Taiwan in October 2019. Some Taiwanese media have noticed that the official website of the association refers to Quan Yutai as “representative”.
Taiwan-Japan friendly relations have recently become one of the focuses of international attention. After the meeting between Kan and Biden last Friday (16), Keiji Furuya, president of the Japan-China Parliamentarians’ Association, a cross-party group of Japanese parliamentarians, posted a photo on Twitter on the 17th, revealing that the Japanese flag was raised at the entrance of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association in Taipei. “In the past, Japan has not flown the national flag because of concerns about the Chinese Communist Party.” According to the Central News Agency, Furuya also wrote: “I wonder if people visiting the Japan Taiwan Exchange Association have noticed this change. For China that deviates from the norm, democratic countries should cooperate to confront it.”
The photo drew attention from all walks of life, although some Taiwanese media later found that the building in the photo should be the “official residence” of the Japanese representative in Taiwan, not the office of the association, but some informed sources pointed out that since January this year, the official residence of the Japanese representative in Taiwan has been flying the Japanese flag, and after the Taiwan Railway Taroko derailment accident on the 2nd of this month, the official residence of the representative in Japan had also flown the flag at half-mast The official residence of the representative in Japan also lowered its flag to half mast after the Taiwan Railway Taroko accident on the 2nd of this month.
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