A Taiwan mask manufacturer has donated 1.24 million of its product to a soon-to-launched Japan-Taiwan federation of municipality heads nationwide in reciprocation for the free provision of coronavirus vaccines from the Japanese government.
A total of 82 municipalities across the country will be recipients of the masks produced by Yi-Ting, a nonwoven fabric mask manufacturing firm.
The number of masks corresponds to the 1.24 million doses of vaccine that the Japanese government first provided to Taiwan on June 4.
The masks were packed in cardboard boxes labeled "Japan-Taiwan Friendship, Japan Thank You!"
Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan and Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Japan, attended a donation ceremony held in Niza, Saitama Prefecture on Friday.
"Japan and Taiwan have a long-lasting bond of mutual support," Hsieh said. "I hope to spread this power to the world and pass it on to the next generation."
Shinge Yoshida, mayor of Honjo in the same prefecture, who will serve as secretary general of the new federation, said, "I am truly grateful. I would like to make efforts to further the friendship between Japan and Taiwan."
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