Taiwanese poets, writer highlighted in Tokyo showsBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterTwo month-long exhibitions focusing on the works of Taiwanese poets and writers have opened in Tokyo, the Ministry of Culture announced on Friday. From left, Eslite Spectrum Nihonbashi store manager Isono, Taiwan Cultural Center in Tokyo Director Wang Shu-fang and Eslite Spectrum Japan director Wu Jo-ping hold copies of works by Taiwanese poets Yang Mu and Lo Fu on Thursday at the Taiwan Cultural Center in Tokyo. It also received permission from the poets’ families to display reprints of their manuscripts and old editions of their books, the center said. Since Eslite Spectrum Nihonbashi opened in September last year, demand for Chinese-language books has increased among Japanese and Taiwanese living in Japan, the center said. As a result, the center has also partnered with the store to set up a section dedicated to Mandarin works that will highlight works by one iconic Taiwanese writer each season, it said.

Source: Taipei Times October 11, 2020 15:56 UTC