FISHING: Tokyo lacks hard evidence that the Taiwanese fishing boat had breached any agreements between the two countries before it attacked the vessel, Joseph Wu said
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 23, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Japanese government has rejected Taiwan’s protests over its use of excessive force
Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu, left, is joined by Representative to Japan Frank Hsieh at a meeting of the Foreign and National Defense Committee at the legislature in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
against a Taiwanese fishing boat suspected of fishing earlier this month in disputed waters, Representative to Japan Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said yesterday.
The Tung Pan Chiu No. 28 on March 3 was chased off by Japanese patrol boats when it allegedly encroached and fished in an area where the two nations’ exclusive economic zones overlap.
It was driven away from that area again the next day by Japanese boats, which also attacked it with a water cannon.
Hsieh told a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign and National Defense Committee that the Representative Office of Taiwan in Tokyo on March 5 lodged a protest with Japanese authorities. [FULL STORY]
