Over the past 15 years, the festival has become the largest cultural event most awaited by the Vietnamese community in Japan and local residents. Speaking at the event, Ambassador Hieu highlighted that the annual Vietnam festival in Yoyogi park has become Vietnam's cultural brand in Japan. He hoped that friendly exchange activities like the festival will help promote cultural cooperation and people-to-people exchange as well strengthen trust and mutual understanding between Vietnam and Japan. He stressed that building trust is important to the success of international cooperation. Dao noted sea-related challenges will keep increasing and developing complicatedly in the time ahead, setting new and higher requirements for international cooperation in maritime law enforcement.

Source: Viet Nam News June 02, 2024 14:37 UTC