The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China) by John F. Copper

Author:John F. Copper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

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JAPAN INTERCHANGE ASSOCIATION (JIH-PEN CH’IAO-LIU HSIEH-HUI). Japan’s quasi embassy in Taipei, similar in function to the American Institute in Taiwan.

JAPAN–TAIWAN PARLIAMENTARIANS’ LEAGUE (JIH-BEN KUO-HUI YU-T’AI HSIAO-CHU). A low-keyed, loosely organized group of approximately three hundred members of the Diet in Japan that includes members of various parties but mostly the Liberal Democratic Party. Though it does not meet formally, or at least with regularity, and little is known about its workings, it has had considerable influence on Japan’s relations with Taiwan, but also with the People’s Republic of China. It is reputed to have influenced Japan’s policy a number of times in favor of Taiwan. Sixteen members of the group attended President Chen Shui-bian’s inauguration in May 2000.

JAW SHAU-KONG (1950–). At one time one of the activist leaders of the Nationalist Party’s Breakfast Club and the New KMT Alliance, Jaw later became head of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA). In 1992, he resigned from the EPA to run for a seat in the Legislative Yuan in its first-ever nonsupplemental election. He did not have the endorsement of the party and in running created difficulties for the KMT. But he won a large number of votes—more than any other KMT candidate. Thus the party did not punish him. However, in 1993, after continued feuds with the Mainstream faction, he left the ruling party to help form the New Party. In 1994, Jaw was a candidate for the position of mayor of Taipei representing the New Party. He beat the KMT’s candidate but came in second to Chen Shui-bian, the DPP’s standard-bearer. Some charged at the time that KMT leaders, knowing their candidate would lose, had diverted votes to the DPP candidate to defeat Jaw. In 1996, Jaw nominally withdrew from politics to pursue a business career, which included taking the position of chairmanship of UFO Broadcasting Corporation. However, he has maintained an influential role in the New Party, and in 1998 he served as the party’s campaign manager. In January 2006, Jaw was acquitted in a defamation suit filed by President Chen Shui-bian after Jaw said Chen had given the president of Panama a US$1 million birthday gift.

JOINT COMMISSION ON RURAL RECONSTRUCTION (JCRR) (CHUNG-KUO NUNG-TSUN FU-HSING LIEN-HO WEI-YUAN-HUI). Originally composed of two U.S. and three local commissioners, it planned, and to a large extent effectuated, Taiwan’s successful land reform program in the 1950s. It continued to operate after land reform was completed, creating farmers’ associations and government programs to improve agriculture. Many of the commission’s reports have been studied by economists and officials in other countries. Lee Teng-hui worked for JCRR for several years early in his career.

JU GAO-JENG (1954–). A former leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and a parliamentarian who became known as Taiwan’s “Rambo” because of his ostentatious and sometimes very aggressive and disruptive tactics in sessions of the Legislative Yuan. He left the DPP in 1990 after failing to get the party’s nomination to run for a seat in the Legislative Yuan the previous year. He ran as an independent and was elected.

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