Taiwan's representative office in Sapporo will be opened Dec. 1, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said Friday. The office will be officially known as the Sapporo Branch of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Japan. According to Chen Tiao-ho, secretary-general of the Association of East Asian Relations under the ministry, Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng will attend the office's inauguration ceremony in Japan. Wang is expected to return to Taiwan as soon as the ceremony is over and has no plans to meet with any Japanese politicians, Chen said. Local government officials in Sapporo and Japanese parliamentarians will also be invited to take part in the event, he said. The MOFA originally planned to open the office Oct. 24 but later decided to postpone the plan to allow for more time to train consular staff who will be posted at the office. 