Over 430 members of local assemblies and friendship organizations from Japan showed support Monday for self-ruled Taiwan, which is claimed by mainland China, in an annual exchange event with their Taiwanese counterparts held in the island's southern city of Tainan.The participants of this year's "Taiwan-Japan Exchange Summit," including more than 100 from the Taiwan side, adopted the "Tainan Declaration," calling for deeper cooperation between the two democracies to "ensure the safety of the Indo-Pacific region as well as freedom and peace in the world."The declaration also expressed suppor…READ FULL ARTICLE
