City government decorates bear sculpture to reflect current affairs

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/03/01
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A sculpture of a masked bear asleep in Taiwan’s southwestern city of Chiayi hit the front page of Yahoo Japan on Feb. 28, just one day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked schools across the country to close until April, according to a CNA report on Saturday (Feb. 29).

Chiayi Mayor Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠) proudly informed the public that the bear had made it "big in Japan" via Facebook on Feb. 28, saying that she hoped the epidemic would soon die down so that more people would be able to visit beautiful Chiayi.    [FULL  STORY]