Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

Japanese Representative to Taiwan Tadashi Imai and two Japanese community leaders in Taiwan yesterday thanked Taiwanese for their encouragement and donations for the victims of a massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the country one month ago.

Imai, Japanese Association in Taiwan chairman Koichiro Kusano and Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry chairman Kishimoto Kyota called a press conference at the Interchange Association, Japan’s representative office, to express their gratitude on behalf of Japanese in Taiwan.

Your article about the use of “Chinese Taipei” (“Reporter’s Notebook: ‘Chinese Taipei’? Don’t You Mean ‘Taiwan?’” Nov. 14, 2010, page 3) superbly underscored and drove home with a vengeance the absolute and utter inanity of the denigrating and humiliating moniker.

This cretinous, filthy epithet absolutely must be done away with. I have difficulty finding words that are adequate in describing the risible absurdity of the label.

The core issue is that “Chinese Taipei” is an oxymoron, and the simple truth is that the term refers to absolutely no place on Earth.