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Taiwanese opposition party leader and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen suggested that she visited Japan's Cabinet Office building and met ministers, the first time a Taiwanese presidential candidate has done so.
Taiwanese media reported on Friday that Tsai's motorcade was seen leaving the Cabinet Office building in the morning.
Tsai said she met "some people concerned" and touched on issues of regional stability, economic integration and economic cooperation between the two countries.
However, she declined to specify with whom she met.
If she did meet Japanese Cabinet ministers, Tsai would be the first Taiwanese presidential candidate ever to do so.
The unexpected visit came ahead of a visit to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Tsai told LDP representatives that despite her party, the Democratic Progressive Party, standing a good chance of winning the presidential election in January, it would take them eight years to fully return to power in the Legislative Yuan, while it took the LDP only three years to return to power in the Diet after its defeat in 2009.
As both her party and the LDP were "reborn" after losing elections, Tsai said she would like to see the two parties develop closer relations should her party win the January election, which will be held in conjunction with legislative elections.
DPP Secretary General Joseph Wu reiterated yesterday that Tsai did not meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday, a day after she met Abe's younger brother Nobuo Kishi in Yamaguchi prefecture.
Abe reportedly had lunch with Kishi and Yamaguchi Governor Tsugumasa Muraoka at the same hotel where Tsai had lunch with members of the Interchange Association, Tokyo's de facto mission in Taiwan that acts as negotiator in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.
 


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Presidential candidate refuses to provide names, but says security, economic ties were discussed