TAIPEI -- Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Sunday that he is convinced Taiwanese-Japanese friendship will become even firmer as the beheaded statue of a Japanese hydraulic engineer at Wushantou Reservoir was repaired and reinstated in less than a month. As mayor of Tainan who has been invited to attend, I think I should indeed be present," Lai said. Yukiyoshi Yamano, mayor of Kanazawa City, thanked Lai and local leaders for their kind and efficient efforts to restore "this great man's statue" at the reservoir. "I would like to emphasize that Japan-Taiwan relations and friendship will not change because of this incident," Yamano said. Hatta's grandson, Shuichi Hatta, expressed his amazement at the rapid restoration workand thanked Lai and other Taiwanese people's support for the project.

Source: The China Post May 07, 2017 16:07 UTC