VIEW FROM TOKYO:Foreign minister Fumio Kishida told a news conference that his government does not accept Taiwan’s stance that Okinotori is not an island
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 29, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with CNA
Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin (林永樂) is to summon Japan’s
President Ma Ying-jeou speaks at the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
representative to Taiwan today to protest against Tokyo’s seizure of a Taiwanese fishing boat in waters near the Okinotori atoll on Monday.
“It is the ministry’s duty to do everything in its power to negotiate with Japan and lodge a protest against the incident,” Association for East Asian Relations Secretary-General Peter Tsai (蔡明耀) told a morning news conference at the ministry in Taipei.
Tsai said Representative to Japan Shen Ssu-tsun (沈斯淳) was scheduled to meet with Interchange Association, Japan President Tadashi Imai at 4pm yesterday to hand over the government’s formal complaint about the seizure of the Tung Sheng Chi No. 16, while Lin would meet this morning with Japanese Representative to Taiwan Mikio Numata.
However, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida told a news conference in Tokyo that his government does not accept Taiwan’s stance that Okinotori is not an island. [FULL STORY]
