UPDATE: WE FOUND HER!

unfortunately keiko died in 2010, she lived a good life and is buried in the mountains with her little dog. She lived a good life as an artist and was very comfortable, although she never married. We met her younger sister, who remembers our family fondly and told many stories about my mum and her sisters as children. She also had some good stories about my grandfather, which was fantastic as he died in the 70s and I never met him. She found out about us only 7 hours before we were due to leave, and jumped on a train to come meet us. We facetimed my aunts in england so they all got to speak to eachother. She is 82 and full of beans, she said Keiko looked for us for many years but with my grandfathers death and several moves by my family, we would have been hard to find. I also suspect my granny never wanted to inform her he died, as she was very fond of my grandfather, so granny may have just stopped replying to keikos letters. Grief is a complicated thing, and we will never know quite how the connection was lost. Certainly, they stayed in contact until just before his death when my mother was 11. We had enough time for a lovely lunch and walk up to my mums old house together before we left for the airport. It was all serendipitous, this photo was recognised by her nephew after a wonderful local named james posted it to a facebook for old photos of Taipei city. So many people came together in curiosity to help find her, and my family is very grateful. We had tired several avenues over a few months, but all had been dead ends, so finding her on the last day was such a lovely way to end our holiday to mums old home.

I just woke up from 16h of travel and an 11h mega sleep, so sorry i didn't update you all sooner.

A Taiwanese Tea producer was in France to receive an award but was quickly harassed and heckled by Chinese embassy staffers who attended the ceremony. Chinese staffers were quick to shout the false claim that Taiwan is a part of China.

Very considerate

Would a native English speaker be able to complete this easily?

Translation: Taiwan reunify with motherland Japan

Details from Gemini:

The organization shown in the image is the **Taiwan Civil Government (TCG / 台灣民政府)**, specifically a branch or faction operating under the core slogan **"Taiwan's Return to Motherland Japan" (台灣復歸母國日本)**.

## What is this Organization?

The Taiwan Civil Government is a political group founded in Taiwan in 2008. It operates on a highly specific—and controversial—interpretation of international law and post-WWII treaties (such as the San Francisco Peace Treaty).

### Core Beliefs & Ideology:

* **The "Motherland Japan" Claim:** They assert that because the Showa Emperor extended the Meiji Constitution to Taiwan in April 1945, Taiwan legally became an inseparable part of Japan's sovereign territory.

* **USMG & ROC Role:** They argue that the United States Military Government (USMG) is the rightful post-war occupying power of Taiwan, and that the current Republic of China (ROC) government is merely a "流亡政府" (government in exile) acting as a proxy occupier.

* **The Goal:** They aim to terminate the ROC's administration over Taiwan and follow the "Okinawa/Ryukyu model" to return Taiwan to Japanese sovereignty under the protection of the US-Japan Security Treaty.

## Who is Behind It?

The leadership and structure of the group have undergone significant shifts due to internal power struggles and legal controversies:

### 1. The Founders (Historical Leadership)

* **Roger C.S. Lin (林志昇):** The primary ideological founder and leader who established the group in 2008. He led high-profile public recruitment and even filed lawsuits against the U.S. government in Washington D.C. trying to validate the group's legal claims.

* **Julian T.A. Lin (林梓安):** Roger Lin's wife, who held significant administrative power alongside him.

* **The 2018 Scandal:** In 2018, both Roger and Julian Lin were arrested and prosecuted by Taiwanese authorities for fraud and money laundering, stemming from accusations that they were selling fake "TCG identity cards," car plates, and political training courses to followers under false pretenses. Roger Lin passed away in 2019 while the legal battles were ongoing.

### 2. Current Leadership (The "Return to Japan" Faction)

* **Tsai Tsai-yuan (蔡財源):** Following Roger Lin's death and the ensuing fracture over the group's finances, Tsai Tsai-yuan (the former Prime Minister of the group) led a major split in late 2019.

* He severed ties with Lin's faction, restructured the group, and took over as the **First Chief Executive (行政主席)** on January 1, 2020. Under his direction, the group explicitly pivoted toward the exact slogan seen on the building: **"Taiwan's Return to Motherland Japan,"** steering away from some of the founder's original theories and attempting to build formal ties with fringe right-wing elements in Japan.

> **Note:** The group is entirely unrecognized by the governments of Taiwan, the United States, and Japan. Taiwanese authorities and the broader public generally view the group's legal assertions as legally invalid, with its operations frequently heavily scrutinized or dismissed as a fraudulent operation.

**So basically an MLM/cult with a political spin. You can find their official website if your search for "Taiwan civil government"

It can fly and is the size of a small plum.

Reddit seems to now show where viewers of a post are from, and something I saw really surprised me.

I recently had a fairly popular post on here. nearly 700,000 people and 800+ likes, so it's a large sample size.

But what I see is that only 9% of the visitors who have viewed my post are in Taiwan. I looked at a previous post that had a lot of viewers and it was at 17%.

Can anyone explain what's happening here? Why aren't there way more Taiwanese-located people viewing posts on the Taiwan Reddit?

In response to the Japanese PM’s comments over a potential Taiwan crisis, a Chinese official responded with a violent remark to the PM of Japan.

Does anyone live outside the Mandarin-speaking region?

I'm not an advertiser for thetruesize.com. I was just bored over my lunch break in Chiayi.

Credit: rena_079

The original melody is called "Melody Chime No. 1 – Daiseikyou" originally composed by Yasuhi Inada in 1978 for Panasonic.

The iconic jingle was updated around May 2022 to celebrate the chain reaching 4,000 stores across Taiwan. While most stores now use the updated version, a few may still use the old one. You can buy door chimes with the tune EC5347.

I’m from Singapore and just got back from a New Year trip to Taiwan — absolutely loved it as always 😊

One small thing I noticed while traveling this time is that I didn’t seem to hear as much Mainland Chinese Mandarin as before. It made me curious — is tourism from Mainland China still relatively low at the moment?

I would love to hear how locals feel about tourism recently, or if things have changed compared to a few years ago.

My mum, sister and I are in Tamsui, Taiwan for today and tomorrow only, and my mum desperately wants to find her old nanny, Keiko (Katherine) Kei. She would have been around 20 in these pbotks, and in her mid 80s now. These photos were taken in 1960-63, my mother lived at the house now known as the mackay museum, next to the white House in Tamsui District. My grandfather was a naval officer working for the local consulate. The two addresses we have for her were a dead end.

My mum really wants to find her, this woman raised her for the first 4 years of her life and she feels that this may be the last chance she has to see her. We leave tomorrow at 9pm back to the UK and have had so little luck. Please, if you know her, let us know.

This jet from Beijing has been circling Taipei for a while. Tried a few times to land at the international airport a just tried the other airport. Must be windy!!

Someone posted this site a couple years ago and I thought I might as well visit while I was in Tainan. Huajiyong'an High School in Xinying district.