A celebratory friendship meeting was held in the northern city of Vinh Phuc on September 21 to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Japan .

The event was attended by former Japanese Prime Minister and President of the Japan-Vietnam Council for Peace and Friendship Tomiichi Muarayama, Deputy Vice Chairman of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association Nguyen Sy Dung and Chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association Furuta Motoo, among others.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Vinh Phuc province, Phung Quang Hung, spoke highly of the competence, technological capability and prestige of Japanese enterprises, and thanked the country’s government, people and businesses for investing and supporting Vinh Phuc province over the past time.

Vinh Phuc is one of several Vietnamese provinces to have formed cooperative relations with Japanese firms, and there are currently 19 Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects operating effectively in the locality, he added.

The official voiced his desire for the Japanese friendship associations to help attract more Japanese investors to the province.

For his part, Furuta Motoo expressed his pride in the contributions the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association has made to nurturing relations between the two countries.

He hoped that this visit will help the delegates understand more about Vinh Phuc province as well as strengthening communication with the province and Vietnam at large.

The delegation took the occasion to visit Honda Vietnam, a Vietnam-Japan joint venture company which has provided effective investment in Vinh Phuc province since 1995.-VNA