VOV.VN - Huynh Thi My Tien on September 11 departed for Tokyo to compete at the World Athletics Championships 2025, becoming Vietnam’s sole representative at the global tournament after receiving a wildcard from World Athletics (WA).

VOV.VN - Japan and Taiwan (China) continue to assert their roles as the two key recipients of Vietnamese workers abroad, as both markets accounted for 83.5% of Vietnam’s total overseas workforce in the first eight months of 2025.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese volleyball star Tran Thi Thanh Thuy departed for Japan on September 5 to officially join the Gunma Green Wings Club in Maebashi for the 2025–2026 Japanese national volleyball championship.

The sixth Vietnam - Japan high-level agricultural cooperation dialogue convened in Tokyo on September 4, with Acting Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang and Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koizumi Shinjiro charting a course for enhanced collaboration in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries.

VOV.VN - Vietnam's U18 national football team will compete against the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan at the Seoul EOU Cup 2025, an international friendly tournament scheduled for September 21-28 in Seoul.

A delegation of Vietnam’s National Assembly Standing Committee, led by Chairwoman of the NA’s Committee for Deputy Affairs Nguyen Thanh Hai, paid a working visit to Japan from August 28–30.

VOV.VN - Produce 101 Japan, the popular Japanese idol survival show produced by Lapone Entertainment, has officially launched its new season titled Produce 101 Japan: New World, and for the first time ever, Vietnam is included in the global audition tour.

Two Vietnamese youths, Tong Manh Tuan and Pham Quoc Dat, were honored by the Fire Department of Tsu city, Mie prefecture, Japan, on August 22 for rescuing two children swept out to sea earlier this month.

VOV.VN - President Luong Cuong pushed for stronger Vietnam – Japan friendship exchanges during his meeting with Yasutaka Nakasone, member of Japan’s House of Representatives and Head of the Youth Division of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), in Hanoi on August 22.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on August 21 hosted a reception for a visiting delegation from the Youth Division of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by its director Nakasone Yasutaka.