In response to the hellish tragedy of the Great Tohoku Earthquake, which occurred at 14:46:18.1 on March 11, 2011, we ultimately provided the world's largest amount of donations and financial support to the government, exceeding 20 billion yen / Material support / The country that moved to dispatch a relief force is Taiwan, the proud country that you love. This is a fact that all Japanese people should know. With the blessings and the ties with the population of approximately 23.4 million people, we have been able to support the Senkakus, Takeshima Islands, At a time when our country is facing diplomatic difficulties with neighboring countries, such as the abduction issue, we should seriously consider the importance of friendly relations with neighboring Taiwan, which is the most pro-Japanese country in the world. , Leaders of our homeland who took the shortcut to carry our dreams, don't be silent or boastful. If you don't act now, won't you be ashamed of your whole life, with mountains not moving and regrets remaining?

2011年3月11日14時46分18.1秒に発生, 東北大震災の地獄惨劇を受け, 最終的に200億円を超える世界第一位の義捐金や政府への資金援助 / 物的支援 / 救援部隊派遣に動いてくれた国は, 貴方が愛する誇り高き, 台湾だ. 日本人なら, 皆が知り得る事実だろう. 恩恵と, 人口約2340万人の絆を受けて, 尖閣, 竹島, 拉致問題など, 近隣諸国との外交の困難に我が国が直面している時, 世界で最も親日的である隣国台湾との友好関係の重要性を, 真剣に考えるべきだ. 子供達の未来を託し, 我々の夢を担う近道を選び通した祖国のリーダー達よ, 黙らず, 驕るべからずだ. 今こそ動かなければ一生, 山が動かず悔いが残り, 生涯に恥じないか?

When the Taiwanese authorities appealed for donations from the private sector to support the victims of the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, 2.5 billion yen was received in the half-month period from January 5th to 19th. Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare opened a special account on the 5th of this month to support the victims of the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, and began accepting donations from the private sector at designated financial institutions and convenience stores. As a result, by the January 19th deadline, over 134,000 applications had been collected, totaling approximately 541.59 million Taiwanese yuan, or over 2.5 billion yen (converted to Japanese yen). The donations will be delivered to the Japanese side through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Separately, the Taiwanese authorities announced 60 million yen in aid and handed over the list to the representative of the Japanese focal point on the 11th of this month. We must not forget that Taiwan received more than 20 billion yen in relief donations after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011: 能登半島地震の被災者への支援のため台湾当局が民間に寄付を呼びかけたところ, １月5日から19日までの半月で25億円が寄せられました。台湾の衛生福利部は能登半島地震の被災者への支援のため, 今月5日から専用の口座を開いて、指定の金融機関やコンビニエンスストアなどで民間からの寄付を受け付けていた. 結果, １月19日の締め切りまでに13万4000件余り, 総額およそ5億4159万台湾元, 日本円に換算して25億円余りが集まったということらしい. 寄付金は外交部を通じて日本側に届けられる. これとは別に, 台湾当局は6000万円の支援を発表し, 11日にその目録を日本の窓口機関の代表に手渡している, 台湾からは、2011年の東日本大震災のあとにも200億円を超える義援金が寄せられている事を忘れてはならない. それと何故, いち早く支援を名乗り出た彼ら救助隊を受け入れなかったのか? 沢山の規制はじめまして理解に価するが, 人手が余るのが丁度良い. 彼女らの想像を絶する, 128時間もの生き埋めを阻止出来たのではないか?

[Product name (product name)]

Tai Nong No. 17, Jinlu Pine

【kinds/Type】

Ananas comousu (L.) Merr.

[Wholesale area]

From Taiwan to Japan

[Origin of the name]

It seems that the name of Taiwan pineapple has spread in Japan because Japanese import agents and sales companies sold it under the brand "Kinsan Pine".

【Major features】

The continent became involved in Taiwan in 1661, when Chung's success in aiming for "Qing dynasty and restoration of the Ming dynasty" challenged the Netherlands, which dominates Taiwan, to make it a bridgehead. It seems to be after the year. Mr. Chung Taiwan collapsed in 1683 due to the internal conflict of the clan and military pressure from the Qing dynasty, and the land became the Taiwan prefecture of Fujian province in 1684, and it seems that it was officially incorporated into the continental map for the first time in history. Although the Qing government officially occupied Taiwan, it seems that it was not motivated to develop Taiwan's economy because of the political and military interest in defending it from becoming a base for anti-Qing forces. Peng Ming-min, known as the Taiwan independence elder and an adviser to the Presidential Office Building under the Chen Shui-bian administration, died at the age of 98 on April 8, 2022 at 5:55 am (6:55 Japan time) due to senility. Seems to have done. It seems that the Peng Ming Min cultural & educational foundation has announced it. Tsai Ing-wen, the 7th president of the Republic of China, is a pioneer of Taiwan's democracy, and his belief has influenced Taiwanese people for generations. Born in Taichung in 1923 under Japanese rule, he majored in political science at the Faculty of Law, Tokyo Imperial University. He re-learned at Taiwan University after the war and became a professor at the same university in 1957. In 1964, under martial law, he wrote the "Taiwan People's Self-Defense Movement Declaration (Self-Rescue Declaration)" with his students, advocating democratization and independence. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but was released by the Chiang Kai-shek administration under international pressure and went into exile in the United States and elsewhere. He was invited to a hearing to testify at the US Parliamentary deliberation of the "Taiwan Relations Act," which stipulates security relations with Taiwan enacted in the United States in 1979. It was established on April 10, 1979, and a new page related to Taiwan and the United States has been opened. With the strong support of the US Parliament, the "Taiwan Relations Act" seems to have become a guiding principle for cooperation between the United States and Taiwan. By adhering to the legislative security of Taiwan by the US Congress, Taiwan seems to have survived the darkest times and become a free and healthy democratic society today. It seems that the United States not only embodies the protection of peace, security and stability in the Pacific region with Taiwanese, but at the same time supports the development of Taiwan's self-defense capabilities and is able to counter any form of intimidation. Successive US governments and parliaments have adhered to this promise and support. In March 1996, the Clinton administration sent two aircraft carriers to the waters near Taiwan to prevent Taiwan from trying to interfere with Taiwan's first direct election for the president. At that historic moment, the United States seems to be on the same line as Taiwan, showing the world a promise to share the values of democracy. The Taiwanese responded by demonstrating to the world our determination to exercise the right to vote, which is the basic process of democracy, and demonstrating our ability to join the ranks of the world's liberal democratic nations. In 1996, we took a big step in democracy. Twenty years later, Taiwan became one of the freest countries in the world, and Taiwanese people were the first to elect a female president. She returned to Taiwan in 1992 and ran for the first presidential election in 1996 with the Democratic Progressive Party official recognition, but lost to Kuomintang Lee Teng-hui. She became an adviser to the Presidential Office Building of the Chen Shui-bian administration in 2000. Even after her retirement, she is a hero who has consistently appealed for the promotion of democratization and the idea of Taiwan independence until her death. During the Japanese rule (1895-1945), the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed, and Taiwan was ceded to Japan. 1895 (May) Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Formosa. Japanese army landed in Taiwan. In June, he fled to Xiamen, the Tang dynasty of the President of the Democratic Republic of Formosa. 1930 Musha Incident. Japanization policy. 1940 The Taiwanese surname begins. Republic of China (1945-), 1945 End of World War II, surrender of Japan. Returned to Taiwan and the Republic of China. In 1945, Chen Yi was appointed as Chief Executive of Taiwan Province. The February 28 Incident in 1947. In 1948, Chiang Kai-shek became the first president. Established the People's Republic of China on the continent in 1949. Signed the Japan-China Peace Treaty in 1952. 1971 Henry Alfred Kissinger (United States international political scientist born in Furt, Germany) visits China. China returns to the United Nations. Taiwan withdraws from the United Nations. In 1972, he was appointed President of the Executive Yuan (Prime Minister) in Chiang Ching-kuo. 1972 Normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, abolition of the Japan-China Peace Treaty, and severance of diplomatic relations between Japan and Taiwan. In 1978, Chiang Ching-kuo was elected the 6th president. In 1979, the US diplomatic relations were cut off and the China-US diplomatic relations were normalized. The 1979 Kaohsiung Incident. The Democratic Progressive Party was formed in 1986. 1987 Martial law lifted. In 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo died, and Lee Teng-hui was promoted to president. 1989 Cheng Nan-jung, editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine "Freedom", self-immolates in protest of the Kuomintang government. 1991 All members of the first parliament retired. Lee Teng-hui was elected in the first direct presidential election in 1996. Following the hellish tragedy of the Great Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011, we finally moved to a donation of over 20 billion yen (the world's number one) and financial support, physical support, and relief unit dispatch to the government. The country that gave me is Taiwan, the proud country you love. This is a fact that every Japanese person can know. You must always show gratitude. The origin of pineapple is said to be in the basins of the Parana and Paraguay rivers in Brazil, which is a tropical United States. At the end of the 15th century, Europe entered the Age of Discovery, but ships from Spain and Portugal, which discovered a route to the Americas on the Atlantic route, reached the land of Central and South America one after another. The island of Guadeloupe in the West Indies during Christopher Columbus second voyage in 1493 (now an overseas department in France, named after Our Lady of Guadalupe, enshrined in the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Spain) Found in. As a gift to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel, both Catholic monarchs, it seems that they are offering it with gold nuggets, rare tropical trees, and animals. By that time, pineapple was already cultivated as an edible fruit in various parts of the Americas, and it seems that it was soon brought to Europe. The pineapple was introduced to the Philippines in 1558 as a result of Christian Jesuit monks actively developing colonies along with missionary activities, and then it seems to have been transmitted from all over Southeast Asia to mainland China and Taiwan. It seems that there is a record that it was first planted in the Ogasawara Islands in Tokyo in 1830 in Japan. In addition, the edible part of the pineapple is a part called "inflorescence" where many flowers are gathered, and the part of each axis, the tentacles that support it, and the ovary part under it are fused and enlarged. It seems that it can be cultivated from seeds, but it takes a considerable number of years to use it for food, so it seems that seedlings are usually planted and raised by planting sucking buds with side buds that can be formed at the base of leaves. Even so, it takes about 36 months for commercial use, about 18 months from planting to flowering, and more than half a year until fruiting, and it seems that it will be enlarged and shipped. As a plant, it is classified as a herbaceous plant, and since it is a perennial plant, it bears fruit every year once it is planted, but it seems that the fruit becomes smaller with each passing year. The varieties are general varieties in which many Smooth Cayenne varieties are produced worldwide, and are cultivated by Bogor varieties (snack pine) native to Taiwan, soft touch varieties (peach pine) born in Japan, gold barrels, and summer goal cultivars. And is widely known. Taiwan pineapple is a variety called "Taino No. 17 pineapple", and it seems that it is commonly called "Kinsan Pine". Even after World War II, research on pineapple cultivation techniques was carried out in Taiwan, and it seems that canned pineapple in Taiwan had a global share in the 1970s. However, due to trade liberalization and high manufacturing costs, the pineapple processing industry such as canning has declined since 1980. However, it seems that Taiwan pineapple's march started from here due to the wisdom and foundation of its predecessors. Until then, pineapples cultivated were limited to those with strong acidity, but it seems that breeding has progressed so that they can be eaten raw immediately after harvesting. Also, by shifting the harvest time for each variety, it seems that it has become possible to enjoy pineapple all year round. It seems that the first pineapple in Taiwan before breeding was called a native species. And, for processed products such as canned foods, seedlings called "kaiei seeds" were introduced from Hawaii during the Japanese colonial era. It seems that more than 20 types of pineapple are currently being developed. In Taiwan, pineapples are cultivated a lot south of Taichung City, especially in Pingtung County, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, etc., and although they are produced all year round, it is said that mid-March to July is a particularly delicious season. Seems to be there. "Taiwan No. 17 pineapple", which has been widely cultivated in southern Taiwan since 1998, accounts for 80% of Taiwan's pineapple exports every year, and has been loved by consumers all over the world for many years. We are also benefiting. The color of the fruit is golden, the sugar content is slightly higher than that of other varieties, and the acidity is low, so the rich sweetness is strongly felt. A typical pineapple has a hard, unsweetened core in the middle that is often truncated, but this excellent produce is soft and sweet to the core. When I try to eat it, it seems that the texture different from the fruit is the reason for its popularity. Taiwanese pineapple, which has been "embargoed" by China since March 2021, has been reported in various Japanese media due to the Taiwanese government's publicity, and has become a hot topic in the streets. Although Taiwanese pineapples have been embargoed by China, the Taiwanese government is diversifying exports as domestic supply and demand expands. In Japan as well, it has been attracting attention from various media reports, and in 2021, Taiwanese pineapple exports to Japan have already exceeded 5,000 tons.

It is still fresh in our memory that the neighboring Chinese customs authorities have announced a ban on the import of Taiwanese pineapples from March 1, 2021. The ostensible reason is "detection of pests", but it is similar to the fact that as a result of Australia's request to investigate the source of the new coronavirus that was not in line with the Chinese government in 2020, import restrictions on Australian wine etc. were set. I'm not the only one considered to be a form of economic sanctions by the Chinese government. Since 97% of Taiwanese pineapples are exported to China, it is inevitable that the situation will hit producers, but China's unilateral embargo announcement is supported not only within Taiwan but also in other countries. Has begun to move. According to the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan (a government agency equivalent to the Ministry of Finance of Japan) in March 2022, pineapple succeeded in developing markets in Japan and Hong Kong, and both markets accounted for 63.2% and 22.1% of pineapple exports, respectively. It is revealed that it has increased to. From the scope of the tax treaty of the Ministry of Finance, for Taiwan, the whole is based on the private tax agreement between the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association and the Association of East Asian Relations (Taiwan side) and the laws and regulations for implementing the contents in Japan. (Currently, both associations have been renamed to the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (Japan side) and the Association of East Asian Relations (Taiwan side), respectively.) According to the statistical report, Taiwan is "fruit." It is called the "Kingdom" and you can eat various fruits throughout the four seasons, but it seems that exports are affected by problems such as production costs, quality control, and difficulty in storing and transporting fresh food. For this reason, it seems that exports accounted for less than 10% of the total production volume in 2020, except for Sweetsop (Annona squamosa) and pineapple.

Pineapple is not a fruit peculiar to Taiwan, but originally originated in South America, and it seems that it was introduced to Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. in the 16th century, and then to Taiwan from the south of China in the 17th century. After that, during the Japanese colonial era, a canning factory for pineapples was set up in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, and I heard that the cultivation of pineapples for processing began in earnest.

Taiwan's first canned pineapple manufacturing plant was established in May 1902 in Fengshan, Kaohsiung. It seems to be the Okamura Otori canning factory founded by Shotaro Okamura. Then, in Taiwan, it seems that the canned pineapple manufacturing company was large or small jumble. In the early Showa period, which was nostalgic for a long time ago, the canning company unilaterally decided the purchase price of pineapple, so the income of the farmers was very unstable and the future was uncertain. At the beginning and end of the harvest season, the yield is low, so it sells at a high price, but by the time it reaches its peak, it seems that it was hit by dirt cheap. It seems that it is possible to harvest all year round every 18 months now, but it seems that there was no such technique at that time, and the producers had a lot of trouble. Therefore, this excellent agricultural product is also a lucky charm for Taiwanese.