Japanese city sets up friendship association with Vietnam
A Japan – Vietnam friendship association was established in Mimasaka city, Japan’s Okayama prefecture, aiming to help boost multi-dimensional cooperation between Japanese and Vietnamese localities.
At the ceremony, Takashi Norimoto thanked the Vietnamese Consulate General in Osaka for active support to the friendship association’s inception. He stressed that the organisation’s members will do their utmost to solidify the cooperation, amity and all-faceted exchanges between Mimasaka and Vietnam.
Meanwhile, Seiji Hagiwara – Mayor of Mimasaka city – expressed his admiration for Vietnam’s achievements in national development and protection, while underlining the importance of tightened connections between the two sides.
He added that Mimasaka, the friendship association and the Consulate General is to display a statue of late President Ho Chi Minh at the city’s museum to introduce the great Vietnamese leader to local residents.
Mimasaka city is promoting multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam, especially in education – training, labour, economy and tourism. It also inked a cooperation agreement with the Da Nang University in April last year to boost training.