日本国会议员团27人抵台出席国庆活动，228名外宾齐聚台北
台北——据中央社报道，由日本国会议员古屋圭司率领的访问团10月9日抵达台湾，成员包括27名国会议员与7名随行人员，将展开两天访问，出席中华民国115年国庆相关活动。今年共有228名外宾来台参加国庆，其中各国访问团成员156人，驻台外国官员与其配偶72人；国庆酒会将于10日晚间在台北宾馆举行，外宾访台行程也以内政部与外交部安排的国庆大会与酒会为两大主轴。
其他重要访团也在9日陆续抵达：台湾在非洲唯一的邦交国史瓦帝尼，国王恩史瓦帝三世于9日清晨抵台；美国印第安纳州副州长Micah Beckwith亦率团来访。侨务委员会统计，今年有来自51个国家、4000多名海外侨胞专程返台参加国庆，与外宾团共同构成今年国庆的外交与侨务版图，接下来两天台北的国庆活动将是各方互动的舞台。
国庆大会10日上午10时在总统府前广场举行，节目包括军机飞越总统府上空、直升机救灾演练、2500多名救灾志工组成的游行队伍，展现台湾的防灾量能；压轴由雷虎特技小组5架勇鹰高教机施放彩烟飞越会场。当晚国庆焰火则移师台东施放。国庆连假自10月9日起至11日止，共3天。
古屋圭司长期参与日台国会议员交流，率团访台出席国庆已成近年惯例；每年国庆，台湾的邦交国元首与理念相近国家政要多应邀来访，外宾规模被视为观察台湾对外关系的指标之一。10日晚间的国庆酒会将在台北宾馆举行，这栋建筑原为日治时期的总督官邸，现为国定古迹，也是台湾接待外宾元首与政要的重要场所，与总统府同处博爱特区，成为今年外宾行程的地理核心。
27 Japanese Lawmakers Among 228 Foreign Guests in Taipei for National Day Celebrations
Taipei — A Japanese parliamentary delegation led by lawmaker Keiji Furuya arrived in Taiwan on October 9 for a two-day visit to attend the 115th National Day celebrations of the Republic of China, the Central News Agency reported. The group comprises 27 lawmakers and seven staff members. In total, 228 foreign guests are in Taiwan for National Day — 156 visiting delegation members plus 72 resident foreign officials and their spouses. The National Day reception will be held on the evening of October 10 at the Taipei Guest House, and the ceremony plus reception form the twin anchors of the guests' programs.
Other prominent guests also arrived on Friday. King Mswati III of Eswatini, Taiwan's only diplomatic ally in Africa, landed early Friday, and Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith is leading a delegation from the United States. The Overseas Community Affairs Council counts more than 4,000 overseas Taiwanese from 51 countries returning for the holiday, so together the foreign delegations and the homecoming diaspora set the diplomatic stage for two days of celebrations in Taipei.
The main National Day ceremony begins at 10 a.m. on October 10 outside the Presidential Office, featuring military flyovers, a helicopter rescue demonstration and a parade of more than 2,500 disaster-preparedness volunteers showcasing Taiwan's disaster-response capacity. The Thunder Tiger aerobatic team will close the show with five Brave Eagle jets trailing colored smoke. Fireworks follow that evening in Taitung. The National Day holiday runs three days, from October 9 to 11.
Furuya has long been active in parliamentary exchanges between Japan and Taiwan, and leading a delegation to the National Day celebrations has become a fixture of recent years; each October, heads of state from Taiwan's diplomatic allies and senior figures from like-minded countries are invited to Taipei, and the size of the foreign guest list is watched as one gauge of Taiwan's external relations. The October 10 reception will be held at the Taipei Guest House — originally the Japanese-era governor-general's residence, now a national historic monument and Taiwan's principal venue for receiving foreign leaders — which, together with the nearby Presidential Office, forms the geographic core of this year's guest program.
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