As a result, a Hiroshima University Centre will be established in Vietnam to increase co-operation in training and research as well as to promote student exchanges between the two countries.

Vice director of the HCM City National University, Associate Professor Le Quang Minh, said that the programme will provide more opportunities for Vietnamese and Japanese students to study and for researchers to exchange experiences in findings and learning.

The director of Hiroshima University, Toshimasa Asahara, said that in the near future, his university will co-operate with members of the HCM City National University to train students in economics, transport and medicine.

Hiroshima is the leading Japanese state-owned university which specialises in economics and medicine and has 11 departments, 20 institutes and research centres, and four libraries.