Taiwan representative in Japan boycotts Nagasaki anniversary ceremony over seating
TOKYO: (Aug 10) (AP) Taiwan’s top economic representative in Japan said he boycotted this year’s memorial marking Nagasaki’s 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city, accusing Nagasaki officials of being pro-China and insulting Taipei.
Lee Yi-yang, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Tokyo, said in a social media post that seat assignments showed Nagasaki “deliberately denied Taiwan’s status as a nation, completely disregarding Taiwan’s sovereignty and dignity”.
Lee said he and two of his deputies boycotted the ceremony because their designated seats as representatives of Taiwan were not among those reserved for diplomatic missions. Lee instead sent a lower-ranked official from Fukuoka.
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