Kenkazu Suzuki (middle), Youth Director of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, will lead a delegation to visit Taiwan on May 3. Members of the visiting delegation include Representative Yamaguchi (left), Senator Sato Kei (second from left), Representative Nakasone Yasulong (second from right) and the House of Representatives Councilor Nishino Tailiang (right) attended today's pre-departure press conference.

(Photo by reporter Lin Cuiyi)

[Special Commissioner Lin Cuiyi in Japan/Report from Tokyo on the 25th] The Youth Bureau of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan held a press conference today. Suzuki Kenkazu, director of the bureau, announced that he would lead a delegation to visit Taiwan on May 3. In addition to meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen and other government officials and the Speaker of the National Assembly , also scheduled to meet with DPP presidential candidate Lai Qingde and New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi who may represent the Kuomintang.

This visit to Taiwan will also take the high-speed rail to Kaohsiung to visit the bronze statue of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the former residence of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in Zuoying.

The Youth Bureau’s delegation to Taiwan is led by Director Suzuki Kenkazu, and members include Rep. Fujiwara Takashi, Senator Sato Kei, Rep. Nakasone Yasutaka, Rep. Nishino Tasuke, Rep. Yamaguchi Shin, and the Japan Youth Council (JC) Chairman Aso Shotoyo and a total of 12 cadres are scheduled to leave on the evening of the 3rd of next month and return to Japan on the morning of the 7th.

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The Youth Bureau also led a delegation to visit Taiwan during Japan’s Golden Week holiday in May last year. It became the first group of members of the Japanese Diet to visit Taiwan after the outbreak. Unfortunately, during their stay in Taiwan, Taliang Nishino contracted the epidemic. The then director Masanobu Ogura also returned A Taiwanese son-in-law, Shin Yamaguchi, was unable to meet President Tsai Ing-wen because he was in the same car.

As for finally being able to see President Tsai in person this year, Yamaguchi said that he would seize this opportunity to exchange views with President Tsai. Tailiang Nishino said that because his infection caused trouble to everyone, he felt very sorry in his heart, and this time he would take revenge He felt that he had completed the task of visiting Taiwan, and he was looking forward to this visit very much.

Although the former director Masanobu Ogura failed to meet with President Tsai last year, he was soon recruited into the cabinet after returning to Japan to serve as the minister for the birth reduction. Suzuki, who took over as the director, also actively participated in various activities held by the representative office in Japan this year. Today's press conference Among them, he also brought with him the folder hand-painted by Taiwanese cartoonists that he got when he participated in the "Manga Bond" color paper exhibition early last month.

The Youth Bureau's visit to Taiwan is scheduled to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President Lai Ching-teh, Premier Chen Chien-jen, Legislative President You Xikun, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, President of the Taiwan Japan Association Su Jiaquan, etc.

In addition, the delegation will also visit Taipei City, New Taipei City, and Kaohsiung City, and communicate with the Youth Department of Sansanhui and the National Salvation Corps.

Since Taiwan will hold a presidential election next year, the Youth Bureau's trip will also focus on meeting DPP presidential candidate Lai Ching-te and New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi who may represent the Kuomintang in the election.

Suzuki said that he hoped to use the opportunity of meeting with Vice President Lai to understand his thoughts on the future relations between Taiwan and Japan.

This visit will also visit the bronze statue of Abe in Kaohsiung and the former residence of Yasuhiro Nakasone in Zuoying. Yasuhiro Nakasone is also the grandfather of Yasuhiro Nakasone, a member of the delegation. Through this visit, I really communicated with people from all walks of life in Taiwan.

Suzuki Kenkazu, director of the Youth Bureau of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, held a press conference today and announced that he will lead a delegation to visit Taiwan on May 3.

(Photo by reporter Lin Cuiyi)