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What Kan's victory means for Taiwan

The victory of incumbent Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto in Tuesday's election for the presidency of the governing centrist Democratic Party of Japan over former DPJ secretary-general Ozawa Ichiro will both allow Kan to avoid the fate of being a "three - month" prime minister and exercise significant influence on the political situation in Northeast Asia.

First, most observers believed that Ozawa's diplomatic policy stance was more inclined to "move close to China and distant from the U.S." or even to use the objections of the majority of Okinawan people to the continuation of U.S. bases, to pressure Washington to agree to remove the controversial U.S. Marine Corps Air Base at Futenma.

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KMT keen to distort history as well

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) did his own bit of distorting history on Thursday with his assertion that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) defeated the Japanese in the Chinese war of resistance against Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945. Even though Ma and the KMT’s claims are stronger than those made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), they are only slightly so.

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Investigators raid Chen’s office

Dozens of investigators raided former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) office yesterday morning after allegations surfaced that he had illegally removed boxes of classified government documents from the Presidential Office when he left office two years ago.

The search by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigation Panel (SIP) resulted in the removal of almost 60 boxes of files from the ex-president’s former office on Guanqian Road in Taipei and his new office on Linyi Street, office director Chen Sung-shan (陳淞山) said.

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US, Japan to hold exercise to recapture disputed isles

A massive military exercise of potential importance to Taiwan will be staged in December on and around the Ryukyu Islands by the Japan Self-Defense Forces and ships from the US 7th Fleet.

According to a study just released by James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, associate professors of strategy at the US Naval War College, the exercise is aimed at perfecting plans for recapturing the lightly protected islands should they be invaded by China.

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Newsflash

Despite repeated warnings by the Ministry of National Defense to curb their visits to China, retired senior military personnel are continuing to make such trips — and sometimes as part of a group, a top official has said.

The official, who requested anonymity, said a delegation of generals led by retired general and former director of the General Political Warfare Department Hsu Li-nung (許歷農) visited Beijing over the weekend to attend the Huangpu seminar organized by the Beijing government.

Hsu’s “Chung Shang Huangpu Cross-Strait Ties” seminar launched its first activities in Taiwan last year, with Beijing mobilizing the families or descendants of Huangpu military school graduates to come to Taiwan, the official said.