Friday, 01/03/2024 10:54 (GMT+7)
The 9th Vietnam-Japan Festival will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from March 9-10 to tighten the friendship between the two countries.
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| The press conference on the festival (Source: https://cand.com.vn) |
The information was released by Ho Chi Minh City’s Director of External Affairs Department Tran Phuoc Anh at a press conference on the festival held on February 29.
The festival is expected to enhance cultural exchange between the two countries, connect businesses, and promote their trade, investment, and tourism cooperation.
It is also a premise for deepening the cooperative relations between the two countries, opening a new period of stronger and more extensive development, meeting the common needs and interests of both countries and contributing to peace and stability in the region and the world.
Ono Masuo, Consul General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City said that last year, Japan and Vietnam upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the World.
Diverse activities such as trade, culinary, and tourism exchange programmes, promotional activities for Vietnamese and Japanese products, cultural and artistic exchanges, seminars, and trade talks to promote Japan tourism in Vietnam will be held during the event.
In addition, a show on Vietnamese Ao dai, Japanese tea ceremony, origami - the Japanese art of paper folding, and music performances of Japanese and Vietnamese popular singers and bands, will be also organized./.
Compiled by BTA