The association of Vietnam-Japan families has freshly debuted in Japan’s Kyushu-Okinawa region, grouping families whose wives or husbands are Japanese.

VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines began selling tickets on December 26 for commercial flights on the Vietnam-Japan route which is scheduled to take off on January 5.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has suggested increasing the frequency of flights to Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Taiwan (China).

Shipments of fishery products are estimated to rake in US$8.89 billion in 2021, posting a year-on-year rise of 5.7%, said Nguyen Quang Hung, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Directorate of Fisheries.

VOV.VN - Regular international flights carrying passengers in both directions between the nation and Japan will be operated by Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways as of January 1, 2022.

Only Japan has officially agreed with Vietnam’s plan to resume regular international flights starting next year with four flights a week, the Civil Aviation Authority said on December 23.

To promote job recruitment opportunities in Japan for Vietnamese students in central Vietnam, Dong A University and Japanese partners have inked a series of agreements in human resources, education, practical courses and internship programmes in nursing, tourism, automobiles and business management.

A new opera project named “Princess Anio” has been launched to celebrate the 50th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam exported 111,110 tonnes of seafood products to Japan worth US$840 million during the initial 10 months of the year, becoming the fifth largest seafood supplier to the Far East nation, according to statistics given by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

VOV.VN - The second version of Vietnam-Japan Environment Week was launched on December 16 via an online platform as part of the co-operation plan on climate change response towards meeting the target of carbon neutrality by 2050.