Taiwan Protests Seating at Nagasaki Peace Ceremony | Taiwan News | Aug. 9, 2026 14:59
Taipei protested the designation and sent a lower-ranking delegate after Nagasaki placed Taiwan in the international NGO section, officials said.
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Taipei protests ‘snub’ at Japan memorial
Taipei yesterday protested the seating arrangement at the Nagasaki atomic bombing memorial ceremony, saying that the Nagasaki City Government’s decision to place its representative outside the diplomatic delegation area slighted Taiwan’s national status and played into Beijing’s efforts to suppress
Taiwan envoy to Japan protests Nagasaki memorial designation, skips event
Tokyo, Aug. 9 (CNA) Taiwan's representative to Japan, Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋), said Sunday that he decided not to attend an annual atomic bombing memorial ceremony in the Japanese city of Nagasaki earlier in the day to protest the labeling of his delegation as an "international nongovernmental organization."
On September 9, Nagasaki City, Japan, held a "Memorial Ceremony for the Peace of the Atomic Bomb," but Representative to Japan Lee Yi-yang refused to attend. Lee stated that the Nagasaki City government deliberately placed the Taiwanese representative outside the diplomatic corps area, thus diminishing Taiwan's dignity and status. He also emphasized that the Nagasaki City government had succumbed to the will of the Chinese Communist Party, and t…
[Taipei – Yoshiaki Nishimi] Li Yi-yang, representative of Taiwan's Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, announced on the 9th that he had been absent from the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony. He stated that he was "seriously protesting" the fact that Nagasaki City had not provided "appropriate treatment." The head of the Fukuoka Representative Office attended the ceremony on his behalf.
The Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony was held today, but Taiwan's representative to Japan, Lee Yi-yang, did not attend. Lee stated that the Nagasaki City government deliberately diminished Taiwan's national dignity and status by seating the Taiwanese representative outside the diplomatic corps area. Therefore, Taiwan decided to lower its level of attendance and expressed its strong protest and condemnation of the Nagasaki City government's arran…
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