An exhibition featuring more than a hundred photos of late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will kick off in Taipei on March 27.
The photo exhibition will run from March 27 to April 10 at the Chang Yung-fa Foundation’s International Convention Center, according to the Institute for National Policy Research, one of the event’s organizers.
The exhibition was first held at Tokyo Tower in November 2022 by the Seiron, the monthly magazine of the Sankei Shimbun, which is a conservative daily newspaper, according to the institute.
It featured 150 photos taken by the Sankei Shimbun’s photojournalists and Abe’s associate Koichi Hagiuda, who is currently chairman of the Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the institute said.
The exhibition will be displayed in Taipei after its success in Tokyo, the institute said, adding that the Taipei event would also feature more than 30 photos taken by Abe’s widow Akie Abe.
Visitors will be able to get a glimpse of “Abe’s daily life” and his “friendship with Taiwan” through the photos by Akie Abe, which will be shown to the public for the first time, the institute added.
It added that the net profit made from the gate fees of the Taipei exhibition would be donated to charity groups dedicated to promoting Taiwan’s relationship with Japan, without elaborating.
Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister, died on July 8, 2022 at the age of 67, hours after being shot twice by a man with a makeshift shotgun on a street in the city of Nara, near Osaka, during an election campaign.
He served as prime minister from 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel