Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-03
By: CNA
Hideki Makihara, member of Japan’s House of Representatives and acting chief of the Youth
Hideki Makihara. (Photo from Hideki Makihara’s official website)
Division of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), will lead a delegation to visit Taiwan on Aug. 17, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.
Makihara, 44, will exchange views with local political heavyweights on relations between the two countries and among Taiwan’s political parties.
Shinjiro Koizumi, a son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, visited Taiwan in 2013 when he was chief of LDP’s Youth Division at the time.
LDP’s Youth Division is composed of party members who are under 45. [FULL STORY]
