VOV.VN - Japan will consider new generation ODA for Vietnam, with a primary focus on new fields such as digital transformation, green transformation, climate change response and health, alongside infrastructure construction as a traditional field, said newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Ito Naoki.

The 39th ASEAN-Japan Forum took place in Bangkok, Thailand on June 25 to review the ASEAN-Japan cooperation and discuss future directions to promote their comprehensive strategic partnership.

Japan will help Vietnam develop an environmental management certification system to reduce waste food for better environmental management and protection, heard a meeting between Vietnamese and Japanese agencies in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 25.

The Vietnam-Japan friendship and cooperation is growing soundly across all spheres with increasingly strengthened political trust, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long remarked while receiving President Sugiyama Naoshi of Japan’s Nagoya University in Hanoi on June 25.

VOV.VN - A forum to explore potential for Vietnam - Japan tourism cooperation 2024 was recently held in Tokyo by Fuji Travel company, with the sponsorship of the Vietnam Business Association in Japan and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

Vietnam sent more than 78,000 labourers to work abroad so far this year, with Japan receiving the largest number, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Ito Naoki during his recent meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Transport (MoT) in Hanoi said Japan shows its keen interest in Vietnam’s North-South express railway project worth approximately US$70 billion.

VOV.VN - As many as 17 enterprises and startups of Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture expressed a keen interest in expanding investment cooperation with Vietnamese businesses, especially IT firms, at a workshop in Hanoi on June 5.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Japan festival 2024 will take place at the Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in the central city of Da Nang from July 4 to 7, as part of celebrations to mark 51 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

VOV.VN - "Vietnam Festival 2024" opened at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on June 1, with the event drawing a large number of representatives from numerous Japanese ministries, organisations, businesses, and the Vietnamese community in Japan.