The Taiwan Constitutional Foundation pointed out today that Kuan-min Kuan-min, chairman of the foundation and senior adviser to the Presidential Office, passed away at Taipei Veterans General at 8:55 am on the 27th at the age of 97.
The Taiwan Constitutional Foundation stated that the commemoration site for Ku Kuan-min will be announced separately after the setup is completed, and all sectors of society will be open to commemorate the spirit and philosophy of Ku Kuan-min.
The Taiwan Independent National Construction Alliance also stated through Facebook earlier today that Koo Kuan-min, chairman of the Japanese headquarters of the Taiwan Independent Alliance, passed away at 8:55 am today (27th) at the age of 97.
Presidential Counselor Ku Kuan-min was born in the Lukang Koo family. His father is Koo Hsien-rong, and his half-brother is the late Chairman of the Sea Foundation Koo Zhen-fu. The Koo family is politically blue, but Koo Kuan-min believes in Taiwan independence. Regarding cross-strait relations, Kuan-min Koo has long advocated the idea of ”a state of brothers”, believing that Taiwan and mainland China are a state of brothers. The mainland should take the stand of an older brother to recognize Taiwan as a country and a “state of brothers” on an equal footing, and help Taiwan join the United Nations.
In 1949, students from National Taiwan University and Taiwan Provincial Normal University (now Taiwan Normal University) shared bicycles and were stopped by the police. The two sides clashed and the students were beaten. Afterwards, students from National Taiwan University and National Taiwan Normal University surrounded the police station; April 6 of the same year On the 1st, military police surrounded the dormitory of National Taiwan University and the dormitory of Teachers College to arrest students. At that time, Kuanmin Kuanmin was in Hong Kong, and his family made a long-distance call to notify the military police to search his home and arrest him, demanding that Kuanmin Kuanmin never return to Taiwan. Kuanmin Kuanmin later married his first wife, Cai Guoyi, and then transferred to Japan to do business.
Gu Kuanmin and non-Party activists established the Taiwan Independence Alliance in Japan and vigorously funded the Taiwan Independence Movement. In 1972, Kuan-Min Kuan was invited back to Taiwan to meet with Chiang Ching-kuo; in his memoirs, Kuan-Min Koo mentioned that because the two parties agreed to meet secretly, he flew from Tokyo to the Netherlands via Moscow, stayed overnight in Amsterdam, and flew to Paris, France the next day to fly to Thailand Bangkok, then to Hong Kong, stayed overnight in Hong Kong before returning.
Afterwards, Kuan-min Kuan-min stated that in front of Chiang Ching-kuo, he talked about removing the “native place” of his ID card to alleviate the difference between people from other provinces and those from the province; he talked about cultivating the opposition party in Taiwan; he talked about counterattacking the mainland as a dream, which made Chiang Ching-kuo look very ugly .
After Gu Kuanmin returned to Japan, he explained to the members of the Taiwan Independence Alliance that he would return to Taiwan to see Chiang Ching-kuo, but he was not accepted, thinking it was a “surrender”. In 1975, Kuan-Min Kuan decided to return to Taiwan for a long-term stay. He mentioned in his memoirs that the idea at the time was that “the key issue of the independence movement is not to promote it internationally, but to focus on Taiwan Island.” After he returned to Taiwan, in addition to running his business, he also created and operated magazines such as “Taiwan Spring and Autumn”, “Black and White News Weekly”, and “Japanese Digest” in conjunction with the Taiwanese intellectual circles.
The Taiwan Constitutional Foundation pointed out in a press release today that Koo Kuan-min believes that the aesthetics of life’s exit is a kind of “flower path”. The so-called “flower path” is the passage between the left lounge and the stage in Japanese Kabuki. Important people have to pass through when they enter and leave the stage. It is not only a passage, but also an important performance space. Getting on and off stage is part of the show. It is not enough for the actors to perform their best on the stage, the most important thing is how to walk through the flower path after the curtain ends, and the curtain call is a truly successful performance.
The Constitutional Foundation stated that Ku Kuan-min has devoted himself wholeheartedly to Taiwan’s independence and national normalization for more than half a century since he was in his 30s. This is not only a political movement, but also an “ideological revolution” for Taiwanese.
The Constitutional Foundation stated that throughout his life, Ku Kuan-min, defying any political pressure, adhered to the principles of “doing the right thing” and “doing nothing is zero”, and bravely pushed forward wave after wave of actions, including in Japan in the 1960s. When he was the chairman of the Taiwan Independence League, he initiated the 228 demonstrations; in the 1990s, he urged Peng Mingmin to run for president as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party; he published opinion advertisements in important American media many times to express the voice of the Taiwanese people.
According to the Constitutional Foundation, Koo Kuan-min once expressed to the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Taiwan-Japan relations are inseparable, which contributed to the concept of “whatever happens to Taiwan means what happens to Japan”; in 2009, he established the Action Alliance to Rescue Taiwan, and launched a national 319 township citizen action tour speech ; In 2010, the New Taiwan National Policy Think Tank was established; in 2013, the New Taiwan Peace Foundation was established.
In 2019, the Taiwan Constitutional Foundation was established. In 2020, the first constitutional referendum in Taiwan’s constitutional history was launched. In 2021, hundreds of groups were called to form the Taiwan New Front United Front to promote Taiwan’s new constitution movement.
The Constitutional Foundation stated that when Kuan-min Kuan-min was at the end of his life, what he remembered was to promote the formulation of a new constitution formulated by the people of Taiwan and born for Taiwan. We hope to fundamentally unite and condense the “Taiwanese consciousness” and deepen the “national consciousness” and “national consciousness” of the Taiwanese people.
The Constitutional Foundation stated that Kuanmin’s motto in his life is: “Do, don’t do, and do everything.” He has his own unique interpretation of “Do everything.” He believes that “even if it is not good for me, as long as it is the right thing , what should be done is still to be done.”
The Constitutional Foundation said that Kuanmin Kuanmin’s happy life has both joys and sorrows. For Taiwan, he has gone all the way to today. Although Taiwan is still not perfect, even though Taiwan’s national normalization project has not yet been completed, I am very grateful to Kuan Min for his struggle to the last moment of his life.
Responsible editor: Yu Weining
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