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Playing Catch Across the Water:

Fukuoka Dome (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Art in the Rice Paddies:

Wei Wen Hsuan (left), who was among the first youngsters to return to Chishang, has helped his younger friend Frank Lin (right) to renovate an old house; they share customers by providing different services. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

A Sweet Vision:

Papaya-shaped cocoa pods have large seeds and relatively little pulp, and are not suited to being consumed directly. Chocolate’s amazing journey began with the Mayans, who used the beans to make a drink. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

A Spiritual Space:

The brutalist buildings of Sacred Heart High School for Girls were designed by Japanese architect Kenzō Tange. The shadows cast by the triangular window bays constantly change. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

The Taiwan–Kyushu Connection

The Taiwan–Kyushu connection is a real thing! The newly refurbished JR Moji Port Station. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

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Leisure and Travel

Playing Catch Across the Water:

Taiwan and Japan’s Shared Love of Baseball

In 1895, the Japanese introduced the sport of baseball to Taiwan. It caught on spectacularly, and we’ve now been playing it for over a century. It would be no exaggeration to call baseball Taiwan’s national sport. Over the years, it has been a focus of social cohesion. Baseball is a big ...more

Global Outlook

Embracing Taiwan:

Southeast-Asian TV Teams Take a New Look at Formosa

The Department of International Information Services (DIIS) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently worked with broadcasters from the Philippines, Vietnam, India and Thailand to produce travel programming in different languages under the title Embracing Taiwan. The production teams included many ...more

Around Taiwan

A Sweet Vision:

Taiwanese Chocolate’s Road to the World

It can be hard to fully appreciate Taiwan’s many charms until you’ve been abroad. Our island may be small, but its diverse climate and geography have given rise to a cornucopia of natural resources, produce and products. And when our farmers and industry work together, there’s litt ...more

Entrepreneurship

The Art of Order

—Professional Organizers

People in modern times are rich in material possessions. Yet mountains of “stuff” do not bring happiness, and in fact people get lost in their clutter. It is for this reason that the role of “professional organizer” came into existence. Come with us to the workplaces of ...more

Cultural Trends

Art in the Rice Paddies:

Chishang Autumn Rice Harvest Arts Festival

The little town of Chishang in Taitung County has long been losing its population to the cities, but remarkably the township was featured on the website of Time magazine in 2009. In the photograph, a musician plays the piano amid billowing waves of golden rice. The melodies linger among the fie ...more

Around Taiwan

DoGoodHouse

Doing Good Things

Cars whiz past Tiaoshi in New Taipei City’s Jinshan District, on the coastal highway linking Jinshan with Danshui. Beside the road, a desert-colored, anthill-shaped home draws the eye. Viewed from above, the unusual structure looks a bit like a sea turtle crouched near the shore. Neither ...more

Communities

Finding Paradise in Taiwan

Dr. Peter Kenrick

Cambodian battlefields, Kurdish refugee camps in Iran, the Zambian countryside.... Dr. Peter Kenrick, chief of emergency medicine at Taitung Christian Hospital, has practiced medicine in many far-flung corners of the world. Asked about the motivation for his medical travels, he replies simply, ...more

Communities

Art as a Cultural Movement:

Opening a Window on Southeast Asia

To many Taiwanese, Southeast Asia is a faraway land of different languages, cultures and religions. But viewing Taiwan through the lens of contemporary Southeast-Asian art, with its depictions of the cultural body blows inflicted by colonial rule and later transition to more democratic governance, c ...more

Around Taiwan

Saving the Sea

Wang Ming-hsiang and His Squid Birthing Suites

While many people make a living from the sea, there are few who speak out on its behalf. Many people know how to exploit the sea, but don’t understand the problems of overfishing and marine trash that are making the once beautiful oceans a scene of devastation. Wang Ming-hsiang loves the ...more

Cultural Trends

Skills to Change the World

—“Craftsmanship Insights” and “Skills for U”

Taiwanese society has long put academic education on a pedestal, while undervaluing vocational skills. This bias is not only evident in the education system, it also appears in all corners of the job market. But in truth people with professional skills are the foundation and central pillar of s ...more

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Column

The Xiluo Bridge (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Leisure and Travel

The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks were pitted against the Rakuten Golden Eagles. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Trendy Issues

Taiwan-born Hiromitsu Nakaji (right), is the grandson of Eiji Shigeta, the founder of Taipei’s famed Kikumoto Department Store. Says Nakaji: “My roots are in Taiwan. I’ll never forget the place.” (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Trendy Issues

Everyone has a blast at musical gatherings at the official residence of the TECO Fukuoka Branch. Nationality and language pose no barrier to the fun! Liu Liren, the president of Taiwan Miners Hospital in Keelung, is shown here at fifth from right. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Overseas Chinese

The lovely, world-renowned Fort San Domingo hosts a steady stream of visitors. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Moments in Time to Last an Eternity

The Taiwan Panorama Photo Collection is a visual record of this land of Taiwan and of its people, from the exalted to the ordinary. It includes a rich variety of images, covering local life and customs, holidays, folk rituals, and portraits of individuals, as well as pictures taken by our photojournalists on assignment abroad. These images tell the true story of the emotional attachment people this land and its people. In this ever-changing world, these moments, frozen in time by our cameras, will last forever.