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Taiwan: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Region 5

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 27. The epicenter was offshore, about 32.3 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 72.8 km, affecting 17 cities.

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Taiwan: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Region 4

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 27. The epicenter was offshore, about 32.3 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 72.8 km, affecting 17 cities.

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Taiwan: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Region 2

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 27. The epicenter was offshore, about 32.3 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 72.8 km, affecting 17 cities. This video shows that the tiles on the pillar were shaken off and fell during the earthquake.

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Taiwan: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Region 3

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 27. The epicenter was offshore, about 32.3 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 72.8 km, affecting 17 cities. This video captures the shaking inside an elevator during the earthquak

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Taiwan: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Region

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 27. The epicenter was offshore, about 32.3 kilometers east of Yilan County Hall at a depth of 72.8 km, affecting 17 cities.

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Taiwan: Winds And Rain Pick Up Ahead Of Typhoon Gaemi Landfall 5

Winds and rain started picking up in Taiwan on Wednesday, July 24, ahead of Typhoon Gaemi's landfall on the coast of northeastern Yilan County around midnight. The first typhoon to affect Taiwan this season, Gaemi packed maximum sustained winds of up to 190 kph, with gusts of up to 227 kph.

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Taiwan: Winds And Rain Pick Up Ahead Of Typhoon Gaemi Landfall 4

Winds and rain have started to pick up in Taiwan on Wednesday, July 24, ahead of Typhoon Gaemi's forecast landfall later today or early Thursday. The first typhoon to affect Taiwan this season, Gaemi packs maximum sustained winds of up to 162 kph, with gusts of up to 198 kph.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Baseball: Eagles' Sung Chia-hao

Sung Chia-hao of the Pacific League's Rakuten Eagles is pictured at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 18, 2022. He played for Taiwan at the World Baseball Classic in the spring of 2023.

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Taiwan's 1st "carrier killer" handed over to navy

SUAO, Taiwan - Taiwan's first self-developed stealth missile corvette, Tuo Jiang, docks in Suao, a fishing port in northeastern Taiwan, on Dec. 23, 2014. Described by Taiwanese media as a "carrier killer," the 500-ton twin-hull vessel was handed over to the navy the same day.

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Japan's quake-hit Tohoku area thanks Taiwan for support

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hiroaki Takahashi (L), head of the Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, presents in Taipei on Dec. 19, 2014, a certificate of appreciation for Taiwan's support for the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku after it was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Mascot characters from Japan join tourism blitz in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Mascot characters from six prefectures in Japan's northeastern region of Tohoku join a tourism campaign in Taipei on Dec. 19, 2014, urging Taiwanese people to visit the region recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Taiwan high school students visit Fukushima spa resort

IWAKI, Japan - High school students from Taiwan visit Spa Resort Hawaiians featuring a hula dance show in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on a school trip on Oct. 19, 2014.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Kahoku Shimpo newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Fukushima Minyu Shimbun newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Daily Tohoku Shimbun newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at an Iwate Nippo newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan, Taiwan students hold exchange event on quake help

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Japanese students take part in an exchange event with Taiwanese students in New Taipei City on March 9, 2014, to thank Taiwanese people for their relief efforts at the time of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan ahead of its third anniversary on March 11.

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Antinuclear demonstration in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear demonstrators march in central Taipei on March 9, 2013, ahead of the second anniversary of the nuclear meltdown in northeastern Japan triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Japan mayor in Taiwan

SUAO, Taiwan - Yoshitaka Nakayama (2nd from L front), mayor of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture, and local fishing cooperative chief Chen Chun-sheng (3rd from L front) join hands in Suao, a fishing port in northeastern Taiwan, on Nov. 13, 2012. They exchanged opinions on fishing rights in waters around the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea that are also claimed by Taiwan and China.

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Taiwan holds events to mark 3/11 disaster in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Children take part in an antinuclear power demonstration of about 10,000 participants in Taipei on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The disaster triggered a nuclear crisis at a power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Taiwan holds events to mark 3/11 disaster in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Traditional divine dancing in hope of abolishing nuclear power is performed in Taipei on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The disaster triggered a nuclear crisis at a power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Tourists from Taiwan arrive at Fukushima airport

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tourists from Taiwan arrive at Fukushima airport in northeastern Japan on Nov. 19, 2011.

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Tourists from Taiwan arrive at Fukushima airport

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tourists from Taiwan take photographs upon arrival at Fukushima airport in northeastern Japan on Nov. 19, 2011.

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Taiwan's 4th nuclear power plant

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Photo taken May 21, 2011, shows Fourth Nuclear Power Plant under construction in New Taipei, northeastern Taiwan.

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Anti-nuke protest in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Ayako Oga (2nd from R), 38, and Saeko Uno, 39, (3rd from R) from Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, take part in a protest against nuclear power in Taipei on April 30, 2011, following the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Taiwan activists return home from Senkaku Islands

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A fishing boat returns to the port of Yeliu in northeastern Taiwan on Sept. 14, 2010, after sailing near the disputed Senkaku Islands, called the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, in the East China Sea. Two activists and three crew members made the voyage in protest at the arrest by Japanese authorities of a Chinese fishing boat captain.

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Asia's longest road tunnel opened to public traffic in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A nearly 13-kilometer tunnel linking Taipei and rural northeastern Ilan County was opened June 16, becoming the longest road tunnel in Asia and the fourth longest in the world.

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Japanese tsunami-hit regions collecting donations for quake-hit Taiwan

A woman drops a coin Feb. 8, 2016, into a box set up by the city of Sendai at the city hall to collect donations for Taiwan following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake on the island. Municipalities in northeastern Japan, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are calling for donations for Taiwan, which was a generous donor to the regions in the wake of the disaster five years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Taiwan president Lee visits quake-hit Miyagi, northern Japan

Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui shakes hands with a local resident during his visit to a monument in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 26, 2015, for victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japan region. Lee laid flowers at the monument and encouraged the survivors to keep up their reconstruction efforts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Taiwan leader Lee revisits northeastern Japan temple

Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui speaks in front of a slab with his and his wife's "haiku" poems at Zuigan-ji temple in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 25, 2015. The couple read the poems when they visited the temple in 2007. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Taiwan leader Lee plants tree at northeastern Japan temple

Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (C) and his daughters plant a tree at Zuigan-ji temple in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 25, 2015, to commemorate their previous visit in 2007. Standing behind them is a slab inscribed with "haiku" Japanese poems of Lee and his wife built in 2008. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee visits cancer research institute in Japan

Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (R) visits a cancer treatment research institute at Southern Tohoku General Hospital in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on July 24, 2015. Lee, 92, who was Taiwan's first directly elected president, is in Japan on his seventh visit since he left office in 2000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service in Taiwan marks 4th anniv. of Japan's 2011 disaster

Participants bow at a memorial service in Taipei on March 11, 2015, on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. Taiwan donated over 20 billion yen -- the largest donation from a single country or region -- to the disaster-hit region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese in Taiwan hold event to mark 4th anniv. of quake, tsunami

Japanese and Taiwanese participants offer flowers during a memorial service in Taipei on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. Japanese living in Taiwan held the ceremony also to thank Taiwan and its people for their generous aid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Taiwan's 1st whisky distillery inducted into hall of fame

A staffer of the Kavalan distillery in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan, poses on March 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Guests cut the ribbon at an inauguration ceremony on Nov. 25, 2015, for the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

The interior of the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters, is shown to the press on Nov. 25, 2015. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Taiwan tourism promotion event held in Yamagata

The Japan-Taiwan Tourism Summit is held in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on May 29, 2015. The event was held for the eighth time since its launch in 2008. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asia's longest road tunnel opened to public traffic in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A nearly 13-kilometer tunnel linking Taipei and rural northeastern Ilan County was opened June 16, becoming the longest road tunnel in Asia and the fourth longest in the world. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan activists return home from Senkaku Islands

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A fishing boat returns to the port of Yeliu in northeastern Taiwan on Sept. 14, 2010, after sailing near the disputed Senkaku Islands, called the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, in the East China Sea. Two activists and three crew members made the voyage in protest at the arrest by Japanese authorities of a Chinese fishing boat captain. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan's 4th nuclear power plant

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Photo taken May 21, 2011, shows Fourth Nuclear Power Plant under construction in New Taipei, northeastern Taiwan. (Kyodo)

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Anti-nuke protest in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Ayako Oga (2nd from R), 38, and Saeko Uno, 39, (3rd from R) from Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, take part in a protest against nuclear power in Taipei on April 30, 2011, following the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan holds events to mark 3/11 disaster in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Children take part in an antinuclear power demonstration of about 10,000 participants in Taipei on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The disaster triggered a nuclear crisis at a power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan holds events to mark 3/11 disaster in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Traditional divine dancing in hope of abolishing nuclear power is performed in Taipei on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The disaster triggered a nuclear crisis at a power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan's 1st "carrier killer" handed over to navy

SUAO, Taiwan - Taiwan's first self-developed stealth missile corvette, Tuo Jiang, docks in Suao, a fishing port in northeastern Taiwan, on Dec. 23, 2014. Described by Taiwanese media as a "carrier killer," the 500-ton twin-hull vessel was handed over to the navy the same day. (Kyodo)

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Mascot characters from Japan join tourism blitz in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Mascot characters from six prefectures in Japan's northeastern region of Tohoku join a tourism campaign in Taipei on Dec. 19, 2014, urging Taiwanese people to visit the region recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan high school students visit Fukushima spa resort

IWAKI, Japan - High school students from Taiwan visit Spa Resort Hawaiians featuring a hula dance show in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on a school trip on Oct. 19, 2014. (Kyodo)