Sixth Vietnam-Japan Festival kicks off in HCM City
The sixth Vietnam-Japan Festival kicked off at the September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 1 on January 19 with the theme “Holding Hands Tightly”.
The sixth Vietnam-Japan Festival kicked off at the September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 1 on January 19 with the theme “Holding Hands Tightly” (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) –⛦ The sixth Vietnam-Japan Festival kicked off at theSeptember 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 1 on January 19 with thetheme “Holding Hands Tightly”.
The festival features more than 140 pavilions of businesses fromVietnam and Japan, helping visitors explore cultural traits of the two nations. Speaking at the event, Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to theJapan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance who is co-head of theorganizing board, said the through the years, the editions of the festival haveenhanced cultural exchanges and linkages between Vietnam and Japan. They also opened cooperation opportunities in the spheres ofagriculture, education, and tourism between the two countries, he added. To Huy Rua, President of the Vietnam-Japan FriendshipAssociation and co-head of the organizing board, said last year’s festival drewnearly 200,000 visitors. This year, the two-day festival includes a range of activitiessuch as seminars and cultural-artistic programmes. Rua also spoke highly of Takebe’s efforts in the successfulorganisation of the festival over the past years, expressing his hope that hewill further contribute to the Vietnam-Japan friendship.-VNA
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The sixth Vietnam-Japan Festival kicked off at the September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 1 on January 19 with the theme “Holding Hands Tightly” (Photo: VNA) 
