TAIPEI -- Koo Kwang-ming, a strong advocate for Taiwanese independence and closer ties with Japan, died in February at 96. Even in his last years, he remained in the public eye.
During President Tsai Ing-wen's swearing-in ceremony in 2016, the nonagenarian refused to join the crowd in standing up for Taiwan's official national anthem, originally adopted in 1930 when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist party, or Kuomintang, ruled mainland China from Nanjing.
