Taiwan Finds a Lot to Like About Its Former Colonizer, Japan

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Ralph Jennings, Taiwan Finds a Lot to Like About Its Former Colonizer, Japan. Los Angeles Times, Nov 6, 2017.
www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-japan-20171106-story.html

Note:
(a) "Elia Yeh of Taipei" is a 28-year-old woman.
(i) Elia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia
(a variant of the names Elias, Elijah, Eli or Eliahu)
(ii) Elias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias
(English: Elijah; Hebrew Eliyahu; Elias is the Greek equivalent; a prophet in Old Testament; male given name)
(iii) pronunciation
(A) Elias
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/elias

Elia in this etymology is pronounced the same as Elias -- without the last consonant s.
(B) Elia (proper noun): "the pseudonym adopted by Charles Lamb in his Essays of Elia (1823) and Last Essays of Elia (1833)"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/elia

is pronounced differently, due to its Italian root. See Essays of Elia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_of_Elia

Quote: Charles "Lamb [1775 – 1834; English] himself is the Elia of the collection * * * Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck.

(c) "Taiwan * * * has taken such a fancy to its super-modern neighbor to the north that a walk down almost any Taipei street reveals Japanese lettering even though few people can read it. * * *  Taiwan's fashionable pet dog this year: the tan and white Shiba Inu breed from Japan."
(i) fancy (n): "a liking formed by caprice rather than reason <took a fancy to the mutt [a mongrel dog 杂种狗]"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fancy
(ii)
(A) Shiba Inu  柴犬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu
(B) Both "shiba" and "inu" are Japanese pronunciations of respective kanji.

(d) "a sushi cube"

Written in Japan as キューブ寿司 (pronounced  "kyūbu sushi") or ライスキューブ ("raisu kyūbu"); it was recently invented outside Japan.
(e) "Stephen Nagy, a political science professor at International Christian University in Tokyo"

International Christian University  国際基督教大学
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Christian_University
(1949- ; private)

(f) "Yoshihisa AMAE 天江 喜久 ['ama' is Japanese pronunciation for 天], associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies at Chang Jung Christian University in Taiwan"
(i) 長榮大學台灣研究所 天江 喜久 副教授
https://tweb.cjcu.edu.tw/eportfo ... %2fcdzc86DJk7n4kUg2
(PhD (2007) & MS (1998); LLB 1995 中央大學(日本) )
(ii) 長榮大學
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/長榮大學
(1993- ; private; 臺南市)

is not related to Eva 長榮航空.
(iii) 学士（法学）
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/学士（法学）
(英米における「Bachelor of Laws」（略記は、「LL.B.」、「LLB」又は「Ll.B.」）に相当するものである)

(g) "About 30% of children's titles in Taipei’s public libraries were written by Japanese, said Tseng Shu-hsien, who now runs the National Central Library. * * * Children's titles from China are rare because the country produces relatively few, especially illustrated books for children, Tseng said. * * * The Japanese-authored Crayon Shin-chan comic books, which star an eloquent yet risque 5-year-old, particularly captivate children in Taiwan. Novels by mystery writer Kotaro Isaka sell briskly to Taiwanese adults. * * * [Hello Kitty's owner] Sanrio earned $580 million from Taiwan in 2016 * * *A boom in budget airlines has brought down the price of the three-hour Taiwan-Japan flights"
(i) Crayon Shin-chan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon_Shin-chan

The word "chan" is an affectionate title addressing a child (boy or girl).
(ii) Kōtarō ISAKA  伊坂 幸太郎
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōtarō_Isaka
(1971- )
(iii) Sanrio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanrio
(section 1 History: name)
Travel is another commercial hot spot, with 4.17 million Taiwanese entering Japan last year, up from 3.67 million trips in 2015. Taiwan was Japan’s third biggest source of foreign tourism both years.