Japan's outgoing prime minister says ties with Taiwan to further deepen

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on social media on Friday that Taiwan was "an extremely important partner" for Japan and that he believed relations between the two sides would continue to deepen.

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