Renho's loyalty is to her familyRenho, member of the House of Councilors and acting leader of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party (DP), won her party's presidential election last Thursday, despite a spat over a supposed "misunderstanding" regarding her "dual nationality." Her late father, Hsieh Che-hsin (謝哲信), who was married to Renho's Japanese mother Keiko Saito, kept his Taiwanese citizenship until death. citizen in 1967, Renho said she obtained her Japanese citizenship by naturalization in 1985. When she campaigned for councilor and was elected in 2004 and later served as a minister in Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet, no objections were raised regarding her dual citizenship. Another pro-independence lawmaker, Lee Hung-chun (李鴻鈞), vice chairman of the Taiwan-Japan Exchange Solidarity Association, " Renho hurt Taiwan as well as herself."

Source: The China Post September 18, 2016 16:18 UTC