Vietnam supports Japan in playing a more active role in contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and globally.

This publication marks more than five decades of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan, with contributions from 10 authors, mostly experts from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies (VASS-INAS).

As Vietnam embarks on a new era of development, Japan is eager to support the country in this journey, while translating their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the World into reality, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Ito Naoki told the press on November 27.

Newly-appointed Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Ito Naoki has emphasised that concretising the Vietnam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the World towards the next 50 years is the most important task of his tenure in the Southeast Asian country.