VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 13 received Marubeni President and CEO Kakinoki Masumi who revealed the Japanese group’s plan to pour billions of US dollars more into Vietnam in the coming time.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Festival in Fukuoka 2023 was recently held in Fukuoka by the Consulate General of Vietnam in the Japanse city, in collaboration with the administrations of Hanoi and Fukuoka, as parts of activities to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Japan this year.

Nearly 300 athletes from Vietnamese localities and clubs and Japan competed at a Judo tournament celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties, and the 2023 Open Judo Championship Ba Ria-Vung Tau in the southern province from November 9-11.

Vietnam always considers Japan as a long-term and leading important partner, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu while meeting a visiting delegation of the Japan-Vietnam parliamentary friendship alliance of Kobe city, Japan’s Hyogo prefecture, in Hanoi on November 7.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Japan should boost cooperation in spearhead industries such as green transformation, digital transformation, innovation, and semiconductor chip manufacturing, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nishimura Yasutoshi in Hanoi on November 3.

The number of Vietnamese businesses in Japan has been on the rise, and many of them have been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Yoichiro Aoyagi, member of the Japanese House of Representatives, said at the Vietnam-Japan Business Day in Tokyo on November 2.

Vietnam is the second largest partner and is prioritised by Japan in the field of information technology, therefore opening opportunity for cooperation between the two countries in IT human resources, said Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC)’s Information Technology Department.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese women’s team conceded a 0-2 loss to Japan in their last match of the second qualifying round of the Paris 2023 Summer Olympics in Uzbekistan on November 1.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese women’s national team claimed their first three points after trouncing India 3-1 in Uzbekistan on October 29 in their second match of the qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Tourism experts of Vietnam and Japan compared notes on measures to handle tourist overload and build satellite destinations, towards the development of a more sustainable tourism for Vietnam, at in international seminar in Hanoi on October 23.