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Deputy PM receives Japan’s Kanagawa Governor

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on November 18 received Governor of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture Kuroiwa Yuji now on a working visit to Vietnam.
Deputy PM receives Japan’s Kanagawa Governor ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (R) meets with Kanagawa Governor Kuroiwa Yuji in Hanoi on November 18 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Damon November 18 received Governor of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture Kuroiwa Yujinow on a working visit to Vietnam.

Dam said the Vietnam – Japan relations are developing in afine and comprehensive way and bilateral political trust further consolidated.Japan is Vietnam’s largest ODA provider, second investor and fourth tradepartner, the official highlighted, adding that the Vietnamese community inJapan has exceeded 370,000 people and become the third largest foreigncommunity in the country.

All these will help boost the relations and cooperationbetween Kanagawa and Vietnam’s localities, the deputy PM said.

For his part, the Japanese official pointed out that overthe recent years, the cooperation between Vietnamese localities and the Japaneseprefecture has been continuing to develop. It is noteworthy that the holding ofthe annual Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa since 2015 and the Kanagawa Festival inHanoi since last year has attracted hundreds of thousands of participants eachyear.

Deputy PM Dam expressed his hope that in the time to come,officials of the Kanagawa administration will pay attention to and encouragelocal enterprises to increase investment into Vietnam in the field of theirstrength like engineering, trade, services, agro-forestry-fishery products inthe time to come. He also expected the prefecture will increase the receptionof Vietnamese labour, as well as facilitate the Vietnamese community there intheir work, study and life./.
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