Taipei Zoo has said it has successfully bred yet another species of poison dart frog, with expertise from a Japanese zoo, and expects the first batch of hatched tadpoles to transform into froglets in the coming days. Tai Wei-yu, a section chief of the zoo's ...

This year marks the 130th anniversary of the start of construction of Taiwan's first railway, back when the island was part of China's Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Among the commemorative events, Taiwanese officials earlier this year celebrated two Japanese colonial-era train stations: the main station in ...

Toward the end of World War II, Japanese authorities in Taiwan began to prepare for a possible invasion the United States, which would have included a blockade of the island's ports and isolation of major population centers from sources of essential supplies. Among these preparations ...

In the summer of 1867, the American merchant vessel Rover, sailing north from southern China's Guangdong Province, lost its way during a storm, drifted into waters off the southern coast of Taiwan, struck a reef, and sank. While the captain and crew of the ship ...

Taiwan's new president, Tsai Ing-wen, has appointed two high-ranking members of her party to handle the island's relations with Japan. Former Premier Frank Hsieh will serve as Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Japan, the Presidential Office announced last Friday, while former Presidential Office Secretary-General Chiou ...

Taiwanese foreign policy is often criticized for its preoccupation with China and the United States at the expense of its relations with other nations, especially regional neighbors. But that may be about to change. The incoming Democratic Progressive Party government of Tsai Ing-wen is taking ...

Just over a month ago, commuters emerging from a busy subway station in Taipei were greeted by a strange sight: a rare Siberian crane standing on the sidewalk, apparently quite comfortable with the crowd it was attracting. Only 4,000 such cranes, also known as snow ...

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Or so said Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, who argued that people often don't see things in the world until an artist shows it to them. This seems to be what occurred last February when postal workers ...

It was 1939, and Siro Kawaguti, a Japanese zoology lecturer at Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University), was curious about the thick, pinkish slicks he saw floating on the surface of the sea off the coast of Taiwan. So he took samples back ...

A team of Japanese specialists are expected to arrive in Taiwan on Sunday to help treat burn victims from last month's explosion and fire at a water park, which killed three people and injured around 500, the island's health authorities said. Minister of Health and ...