Chinese or Japanese?

I am no expert in coinage or Asian languages. I got this coin among my change at a Waffle House outside of Charlotte, NC last weekend and I am curious about its origins. Can someone help me identify it?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

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Taiwan 1 yuan, Year 70, which is 1981.

 

Gxseries,the Taiwanese currency is called the New Taiwan Dollar,not the Yuan,which is actually the Communist Chinese currency.

The character 'Yuan' is also found on the coins of Hong Kong to represent the Chinese for 'Dollar',which is why Krause wrongly calls the Taiwanese currency as the Yuan.

Despite what the Communist Chinese think,Taiwan is actually an independent country in its own right.

Aidan.

 

Strongly disagree Aidan. If you can actually read the Chinese characters, "圓" directly translates to yuan AND pronounced as YUAN, regardless of what people want to call it. Although it is true that internationally it's called New Taiwan Dollar, or marked as NT$, in reality, it's just called yuan in Taiwan.

Perhaps some Taiwanese would like to comment and verify it.

And no, MOST world government recognizes Taiwan is part of China, which I believe NZ DOES support this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

Perhaps this should be taken into debates.

 

Independence in fact is independence in fact.

Taiwan is independent until it's not.

 

If you want to add to the numismatic discussion of this thread, I'm afraid you'll have to start a new one.

Those who want to continue the "Is Taiwan a country?" topic, take it to the Politics, Religion and World Events forum.