Japan's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Jiro Akama will visit Taiwan this weekend, making him the highest ranking Japanese official to come here since 1972, when the two countries severed diplomatic relations after Tokyo switched recognition from Taipei to Beijing.
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