台湾顧問に岩崎元統合幕僚長　異例の任命、日本人は２人に

　【台北、北京時事】台湾行政院（内閣）が自衛隊制服組トップの統合幕僚長を務めた岩崎茂氏（７２）を政務顧問に任命したことが２１日、行政院への取材で分かった。外国人の起用が珍しい上、自衛隊幹部経験者は極めて異例。日本人の政務顧問就任が明らかになるのは昨年８月に任命された台南市在住の実業家、野崎孝男氏に続いて２人目となる。
　中国の軍事的威圧を受ける民進党の頼清徳政権は、岩崎氏の登用を通じ、安全保障分野で日台関係を強化したい意向とみられる。卓栄泰行政院長（首相）は既に、訪台した岩崎氏と面会した。行政院の政務顧問は無報酬で提言を行う非常勤ポストで、名簿は非公開。
　岩崎氏は航空幕僚長を経て、２０１２年に統合幕僚長に就任。１４年まで沖縄県尖閣諸島の国有化を機に中国側が高めた軍事的緊張に自衛隊トップとして対処した。（2025/03/21-18:48）

Shigeru Iwasaki, former chief of the Japanese Self Defense Force's Joint Staff, has been appointed as a political adviser to the executive branch of Taiwan's government, it was learned Friday.
   It is unusual for a foreigner to hold such a post, and extremely rare for a former senior SDF official. Iwasaki, 72, was the second Japanese to be appointed to the post, after Takao Nozaki, a businessman in Tainan, southern Taiwan, was named last August.
   Amid military pressure from Beijing, the administration of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te apparently hopes to strengthen Taiwan-Japan ties in the field of security through the appointment of Iwasaki.
   The political adviser is a non-paid, part-time position, and the list of such advisers is not publicly available.
   Iwasaki served as chief of the SDF Joint Staff from 2012 to 2014, when tensions between Japan and China soared over Japan's nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, which are administered by Japan but also claimed by China.