Dien Bien (VNA) – The northern province of Dien Bien wants to expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges with Japan in the coming time, thus contributing to the close friendship between Vietnam and Japan, said Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Tran Quoc Cuong while receiving a delegation of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association on July 18.
Welcoming the delegation, led by Takabatake Motoaki, chairman of the association for workers’ education, Cuong said that in recent years, the Vietnam-Japan relations have been growing fruitfully, bringing practical benefits to the people, businesses and localities of the two countries.
He noted that hundreds of Japanese combatants stood side by side with Vietnamese soldiers to make the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory 70 years ago.
At the reception, Cuong introduced to the delegation the province’s socio-economic development, culture, cuisine and people of Dien Bien and reviewed the results of exchange and cooperation activities between Dien Bien and Japan.
A representative of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association said that Japanese combatants who returned home after the Dien Bien Phu Victory established the association in 1955.
Yanagi Yoji, General Secretary of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association, affirmed that he will continue to contribute to strengthening friendship exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.
He noted that currently, there are over 550,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in Japan, including many citizens of Dien Bien province. Therefore, he hoped that in the coming time, the two sides will organise more cooperation and exchange activities in various fields to further tighten this good relationship./.
