Further boosting Vietnam-Japan relations.

At the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and his wife paid an official visit to Vietnam from April 27 to 29. This was Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's first visit to Vietnam since taking office, and also his first visit after the two countries upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in November 2023.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. (Source: Japanese Government Website)

The visit takes place as the Vietnam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership enters its second year, achieving significant new progress and comprehensive development in all areas.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of generations of leaders and people of both countries over the past half-century, the cooperative and friendly relationship between Vietnam and Japan has developed strongly, substantively, and extensively, achieving many important accomplishments in various fields. Political trust has been continuously strengthened through close exchanges of high-level and other delegations, and the effective and substantive implementation of cooperation and dialogue mechanisms. This is an important foundation for promoting cooperation. Vietnam-Japan relations Further development in the new situation.

Japan is currently one of Vietnam's leading economic partners. Japan is a country ODA funding and is Vietnam's largest labor cooperation partner, third largest investor, and fourth largest tourism and trade partner. The two countries have granted each other most-favored-nation tariff rates since 1999. In 2024, total bilateral import and export turnover reached US$46.2 billion, an increase of 2.7% compared to 2023.

In terms of investment, as of March 31, 2025, Japan had 5,557 active projects with a total registered investment capital of US$78.6 billion, ranking third among countries and territories investing in Vietnam. In the first three months of 2025, Japan's total registered investment capital reached US$1.13 billion, a 20.6% increase compared to the same period last year, with 77 newly registered projects. Meanwhile, Vietnam had 126 active investment projects in Japan with a total registered investment capital of US$20.6 million.

Cooperation between the two countries in new areas such as digital transformation and green transformation. Artificial intelligence… is receiving increasing attention and significant progress has been recorded. Both sides have agreed on a list of 14 projects with a total investment of approximately $20 billion, prioritized for implementation in the green energy sector. Some projects have already been implemented, such as the collaborative project to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant in Thai Binh, Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa), and a biomass power plant in Yen Bai…

Education and training is one of the outstanding areas of cooperation between the two countries. Vietnam was the first country in the world to officially introduce Japanese language teaching at the lower secondary level from 2003, and at the primary school level from 2019.

Meanwhile, Japan is one of the largest donors to Vietnam's education and training sector through ODA programs. The two sides have signed numerous cooperation agreements in this field. The number of Vietnamese students studying in Japan currently exceeds 51,000. Japan has supported the upgrading of four Vietnamese universities to achieve high-quality university status. The two sides are also cooperating on the development of similar programs. Vietnam-Japan University The aim is to train high-quality human resources for Vietnam in the fields of science and technology, management, and services.

The two sides cooperate closely and support each other in multilateral forums such as the United Nations, APEC, and ASEAN. Japan highly appreciates Vietnam's efforts in streamlining and restructuring its organizational apparatus and political system from the central to local levels, as well as its socio-economic development goals, to create a foundation for the country to enter a new era, an era of national progress, aiming to successfully achieve the goal of becoming a leading nation. high-income developed countries in 2045.

The official visit of Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and his wife to Vietnam aims to further strengthen and deepen political trust, promote bilateral cooperation in many fields such as political-diplomatic relations, defense-security, economy, trade, investment, education and human resource training, agriculture, local cooperation, people-to-people exchanges, etc., while also enhancing concrete and substantive cooperation in new and advanced science and technology fields such as innovation and digital transformation. green transition, semiconductors. The visit will contribute to the continued development of Vietnam-Japan relations in a more substantive and effective direction.

The reception of the Japanese Prime Minister and his wife affirms Vietnam's consistent policy of always valuing the development of relations with partners in the region, including Japan; considering Japan as one of Vietnam's top important partners in many aspects.

We wish Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and his wife a successful official visit to Vietnam, further motivating the two countries to continue implementing the cooperation agreements reached and to cultivate the good political relations between the high-level leaders of the two countries.

Source: https://baoquangninh.vn/tiep-them-dong-luc-cho-quan-he-viet-nam-nhat-ban-3355523.html