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Conference promotes Vietnam-Japan trade, partnership

A Vietnam-Japan trade promotion conference took place in Maebashi city, capital of Japan's Gunma prefecture, on December 3, gathering nearly 60 firms from both nations.
Conference promotes Vietnam-Japan trade, partnership ảnh 1Representatives of Vietnamese and Japanese businesses at the conference. (Photo: VNA)
Tokyo (VNA) – A Vietnam-Japan trade promotionconference took place in Maebashi city, capital of Japan's Gunma prefecture, on December 3, gathering nearly 60 firms from both nations.

Addressing the event, Ryu Yamamoto, mayor of the city, pledgedfavourable conditions for Vietnamese firms investing and doing business in Maebashi.

Ta Duc Minh, Vietnamese Trade Counsellor in Japan Ta DucMinh affirmed Japan is one of the most important economic partners of Vietnam,and hoped that through this conference, Vietnamese and Japanese businesses willfind suitable partners.

Talking to Vietnam News Agency correspondents on thesidelines of the event, Ken Ishida, director of Gunma-based Ribeto Shoji Co. Ltd,emphasised that this is a golden time for enterprises of Vietnam and Japan toexchange and connect because the countries’ relationship is developing verywell.

Spanning nearly 312 km2 and having a population of about340,000, Maebashi houses some 1,200 Vietnamese, also its largest expatcommunity.

On the same day in the prefecture, the Vietnam BusinessAssociation in Japan (VJBA) held a conference to review its activities in 2022and discuss new orientations for 2023.

VJBA Chairman Vu Hoang Duc said the association’s importantmissions in 2023 are to build a strong Vietnamese business community in Japan andto bring a lot of value to enterprises of both countries.

The VJBA plans to organise a delegation to participate in abusiness seminar in Phu Quoc island of Vietnam; attend an agricultural and foodtechnology exhibition in Tokyo; work with trade promotion organisations; andorganise business linking Vietnamese firms with their Japanese peers fromGunma, Fukuoka and Osaka, among others./.
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