The government has officially protested to a Japanese public library opposing the unjustified designation of Taiwan as the People’s Republic of China on its website.
The ministry found that a drop-down menu in the English edition of the National Diet Library’s online page lists Taiwan as “Taiwan, Province of China,” while the Japanese edition only uses “Taiwan,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Jeff Liu (劉永健) said. ). ) he said yesterday.
It refers to a drop-down menu that asks applicants who wish to create an account at the library to click on their country of residence.
Photo: Screenshot from the National Diet Library.
Liu reiterated the government’s position that neither the Republic of China (Taiwan) nor the People’s Republic of China are subordinate to each other and called on the library to quickly correct the error.
The ministry also asked Taiwan’s representative in Tokyo to directly touch the library to record a protest, Liu said.
The comments came here after an organization of Taiwanese living in Japan discovered the designation after a new edition of the page was posted online on Jan. 15.
The Japan Taiwanese Union sent a not-so-easy letter of protest on Sunday because the director-general of the National Diet Library, Motonobu Yoshinaga, quickly corrected the designation, calling it “incorrect and humiliating for Taiwanese. “
The union stated in its open letter that Taiwan is a sovereign democratic state, of the communist regime of the People’s Republic of China.
It’s unclear if the letter made it to Yoshinaga, but as of noon yesterday, the drop-down menu in it hadn’t been fixed.
Founded in 1948, the library was created to assist members of Japan’s National Diet in their studies on public policy issues.
The library targets and outreaches the U. S. Library of Congress. U. S.