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Vietnam presents earthquake relief to Japanese localities

Vietnamese organisations and individuals in the Kansai region have donated 600,000 JPY (over 4,000 USD) to help residents in earthquake-hit Suzu and Wajima cities, Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture.
Vietnam presents earthquake relief to Japanese localities ảnh 1Vietnamese organisations and individuals in the Kansai region have donated 600,000 JPY (over 4,000 USD) to help residents in earthquake-hit Suzu and Wajima cities. (Photo: VNA)

Tokyo (VNA) – Vietnamese organisations and individuals in the Kansai region have donated 600,000 JPY (over 4,000 USD) to help residents in earthquake-hit Suzu and Wajima cities, Japan’s Ishikawaprefecture.  

At a ceremony on January 19 to present the relief at the office of Ishikawa prefecture inOsaka, Vietnamese General Consul in Osaka Ngo Trinh Ha extended his sympathy to the earthquakevictims, and expressed his hope that the authority of the prefecture willcontinue to help Vietnamese nationalsin the quake-hit localities to overcome difficulties.

Chief representative of Ishikawa prefecture in Osaka Yukinori Yamashita thankedthe timely support from the Vietnamese community in Kansai, seeing this a source ofencouragement for the prefecture to get through this tough time.

Ishikawa was one of the Japaneselocalities hit by the massive earthquake on January 1. All Vietnamese livingnear the quake's epicenter were safely relocated to shelters where they wereprovided with necessary supplies. According to statistics, about 5,000Vietnamese people are living in Ishikawa, of them about 600 were affected by theearthquake./.

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