Fifty Years of Informal Ties with Taiwan

September 29, 2022, marked 50 years since Japan and Taiwan broke off formal diplomatic ties. A half-century later, how should we view the relationship between the two sides since then, and how is it likely to continue changing into the future? A series of articles examining the ties between Japan and Taiwan, Japan and the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan and China. (Photo: Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, at the center of the group at right, rings a bell commemorating those lost in the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, in Iwanuma, Miyagi. Taken on July 26, 2015. © Jiji.)