Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son made the statement while receiving Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yasuaki Tanizaki in Hanoi on March 14. 

Ambassador Tanizaki said that Japan is working with Vietnamese agencies in Japan to protect Vietnamese residents, adding that there have been no reported casualties of Vietnamese nationals so far. 

He also said that despite the explosions at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the situation is under control and no major leak of radiation has occurred.

** On the same day, Nguyen Phuong Nga, spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sent deep sympathies to Japan over losses.

“Vietnam shares with Japan and the Japanese people the agonies and losses they are suffering from the earthquake and tsunami,” said Nga in reply to a reporter’s query on Vietnam’s reaction to disasters that hit Japan on March 11.

She said she believes that with its will and determination, Japan will cope with and soon overcome catastrophic consequences to continue to grow.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked northeastern Japan on March 11, along with a devastating tsunami, claimed almost 1,900 lives and left 20,000 missing, according to the latest reports released on March 14.