VOV.VN - Kazuo Shii, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, has highly appreciated the efforts the Vietnamese Party, Government and people have made in responding to the ongoing fight against COVID-19 in the country.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 13 for Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio.

Vietnam has the second largest number of students in Japan, according to the latest statistics from the Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO).

A programme to promote connections for technology supply and demand between Vietnamese and Japanese businesses was held virtually on July 20.

Japanese-based retail giant AEON is planning to use its commercial network to export Vietnamese longan to neighbouring Asian nations, according to Yuichiro Shiotani, General Director of the AEON TOPVALU Vietnam Co. Ltd.

More than 63.4% of respondents in a survey conducted by the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) said they want to go to Vietnam for sightseeing, and a high percentage of those who had visited the country (over 70%) want to go again.

VOV.VN - Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu announced that the Japanese Government has decided to donate an additional one million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - A batch of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the Japanese Government arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City early on July 9.

VOV.VN - The third batch of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Japanese Government is set to arrive at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport on the morning of July 9, according to information from the Japanese side.

VOV.VN - Approximately 400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of a total of one million doses donated by the Japanese Government arrived at Tan Son Nhat international airport on the morning of July 2.