According to recent comments by Minister without Portfolio John Deng, who heads the Office of Trade Negotiations in the Executive Yuan, food imports from Fukushima are likely to prove an obstacle for efforts by Taiwan to join the CPTPP. Deng made similar comments in September, as well...
Whether regarding the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, American military bases stationed in Okinawa and Japan, or the evictions of homeless in Tokyo in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, these are issues to which we are not strangers in Taiwan...
It is unsurprising that Taiwan will not be admitted to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership because of the referendum vote against food imports from Fukushima-affected areas held in late November concurrent with nine-in-one elections...
The annual anti-nuclear march in Taiwan, commemorating the Fukushima incident in Japan, took place yesterday, with environmental groups, Third Force parties, youth activists, and other civil society groups marching through the streets of Taipei, Taitung, and Kaohsiung...
Although long associated with pro-independence groups, in the past year, we can observe attempts to use the language of referendum by other political actors, such as anti-marriage equality demonstrators or the KMT...
Politics would be behind much of the contestation in Taiwan about whether the ban on Japanese food from areas affected by radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster should be lifted...
Donation funding from Taiwan after the Kumamoto quake in Japan has been a popular topic of discussion among citizens from China and Taiwan respectively...
With protests against the repeal of Article 9 in Japan, we once again find ourselves in the situation where tens of thousands of individuals gather on the streets in an Asian metropolitan area, but the situation is not reported on globally....
On Saturday, 60,000 Taiwanese took the streets to protest nuclear power. How are to look at this in the broader context, four years after Fukushima?...
A comparative examination of the Taiwanese anti-nuclear movement in 2014 and the Japanese anti-nuclear movement in 2012. Can a transnational comparison shed light upon future paths for anti-nuclear activism in Asia?...