Japanese Special Advisor Pledges Contributions to Ties with Vietnam

At the reception. Photo: VNA

Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member and Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, received Special Advisor to the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Takebe Tsutomu in Hanoi on December 9, VNA reported.

The host expressed his delight at the growing extensive strategic partnership between the two countries, with political trust increasingly enhanced through all-level exchanges, economic, trade and investment ties recovering and developing even amid the pandemic, and strong cultural and people-to-people cooperation.

He applauded Japan’s coordination with Vietnam to build plans and carry out activities on the threshold of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations next year.

He asked both sides to continue promoting political links, bring into play the cooperation achievements in economy, trade, science - technology and education, and expanding ties to new areas that match the two countries’ demand in the new period.

Highly valuing Takebe’s contributions to bilateral connections for many years, Thuong applauded his guest’s proposals on exchanges between political parties of Japan and the Communist Party of Vietnam, between young leaders of the two countries, as well as locality-to-locality cooperation, cultural exchange, and the continued development of the Vietnam Japan University.

At the reception. Photo: VNA

Takebe, who is also former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, affirmed the importance that Japanese politicians, localities, and people attach to Vietnam and the two countries’ relations.

He informed about activities to be held by Japan and himself to strengthen bilateral ties and suggested some cooperation orientations for the coming time.

The special advisor stressed that mutual understanding and relations will be reinforced through such activities as the Vietnam - Japan festival in Ho Chi Minh City, the Hokaido festival in Quang Ninh province, agricultural cooperation, and the development of the Vietnam Japan University.

More than 430,000 Vietnamese are living and working in Japan, forming the second biggest foreign community in Japan, after China.

Japan is a favourite destination for Vietnamese workers. In recent years, the number of Vietnamese labourers sent to Japan accounts for 50% of the total workers working abroad every year. Moreover, this is one of the markets with the best working conditions and incomes.

Vietnam sends labourers to Japan through five channels: technical internship training programme; programmes to send nurse and caregiver candidates to Japan to work under the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA); specific-skilled labour programmes; technical labour and interpreter programmes; and construction and shipbuilding worker programmes.

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