Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio (Photo: VNA)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 27 issued a statement saying that Kishida Fumio's visit will take place from April 30 to May 1, about 5 months after he took office as Prime Minister of Japan. Mr. Fumio is also the Secretary General of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.
Vietnam - Japan established diplomatic relations in 1973. Japan is Vietnam's leading economic partner and the first G7 country to recognize Vietnam's market economic status, in October 2011. Japan is the largest ODA donor, the third largest tourism partner, and the fourth largest trade partner of Vietnam.
In 2021, bilateral trade turnover reached USD42.7 billion. As of March 20, Japan had 4,828 valid FDI projects in Vietnam with a total registered investment capital of more than USD64.4 billion, ranking third after the Republic of Korea and Singapore out of 139 countries and territories investing in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese are a large community in Japan, with more than 450,000 people living in 47 Japanese provinces and cities, mainly concentrated in Aichi, Tokyo, Osaka, Saitama, Chiba and Fukuoka.
Educational cooperation between the two countries has developed strongly. Currently, there are more than 51,000 international Vietnamese students in Japan, the second largest international student community in this country. Japan is cooperating to upgrade four Vietnamese universities to high-quality universities.
At the end of November 2021, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid an official visit to Japan. He is the first foreign leader that Prime Minister Kishida Fumio received after taking office. Mr. Fumio expressed Japan's desire for Vietnam to become a center of economic recovery and development after the pandemic./.