I attended a business-related Vietnam-Japan program last week, tagging along with my brother.
Sometime ago, it was a hot topic that Vietnam Airlines would be entering into service at Hiroshima Airport but we’ve never heard the progress or start thereafter. It has been postponed a while but the project now resumes. During the three-hour-long event, there were also presentations about businesses in Vietnam by some Japanese companies, an introduction of vocational development programs by a Vietnamese university in Khanh Hoa province, and a ceremony for business memorandum between Hiroshima and Khanh Hoa. Obviously I’m not specialized in any of these fields but I found them pretty interesting.
Hiroshima has received many Vietnamese students and business persons at various organizations and entities: Japanese language schools, universities, corporations, just like other prefectures. You can therefore see many Vietnamese residents who have settled down in Hiroshima. Looking back on my time at a university as an International Student Advisor, I’ve had an impression that they are kind and very eager to learn and work hard.
Accepting Human Resources between Vietnam and Japan has been more proactive and promoted. The mean age of population in Vietnam is relatively young and 33 (while that of Japan is 48 or around). The momentum I felt at the event also indicated that those proactive exchange would definitely be one of clues to empower Japan, where its aging society and labor scarcity are concerned.
Pic: a simultaneous interpretation receiver for Vietnamese and Japanese 🎧
