TAIPEI (Kyodo) Taiwan and Japan signed a research and technology-sharing protocol on disaster response Friday, the first such agreement to result from a wide-ranging memorandum of understanding inked April 30.
The protocol promotes technical and academic exchanges and information-sharing on the prevention of landslides triggered by typhoons and earthquakes, which frequently strike both, as well as research on sand control and postdisaster reconstruction.
The protocol was signed in Taipei at the conclusion of the latest round of economic and trade talks between Taiwan's East Asia Relations Commission and Tokyo's de facto mission in Taiwan, the Interchange Association, which undertakes negotiations in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.
Friday's protocol is the first document to be signed between the two sides deriving from the 15-point memorandum of understanding that covers economic, legal, cultural, security, environmental, technological and scholastic ties, as well as links between local governments.
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