Taiwan pledged Thursday to donate 60 million yen ($418,800) to Japan to help its disaster relief after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's central Noto Peninsula and surrounding areas on New Year's Day.At a press conference in Taipei, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said the government donation would be for the Japanese authorities' rescue operations and post-disaster reconstruction work, in hopes of returning life to normal as soon as possible."Taiwan and Japan have close relations. Japan has always been the favorite country of the Taiwanese people," Wu said, adding that both sides have been a…READ FULL ARTICLE
