A donation ceremony was held Tuesday for tree seedlings that a Taiwan nongovernmental organization is sending to Japan as gifts to celebrate the enthronement last year of Emperor Naruhito.
Among them are trees planted by Emperor Hirohito, who is posthumously called Emperor Showa, when he traveled to Taiwan as crown prince in 1923, as well as an indigenous species of cherry tree.
"If everything goes as planned, relations between Taiwan and Japan will no doubt advance to a higher level," Miki Chang, founder of the association established in September last year to advance exchanges of cherry tree planting, said at the ceremony in Taipei.