Officials from the Vietnamese embassy in Japan and Dong A University join a ribbon-cutting ceremony of the representative office of the university in Tokyo, Japan. Photo courtesy of Phương Chi Chairman of the university council Luong Minh Sam said the university hadappointed the Japanese professor Yasuhiro Yamada as the representative inTokyo, and the office will be a rendezvous for more than 300 students from theUniversity in Japan and other Vietnamese students and workers.
Sam said the debut of the representative office in Japan was part of thestrategic education programme in supplying high-quality human resources forboth Vietnamese and Japanese markets.
He said the appointment professor Yamada, who had experience as chairman of theJapan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) offices in Hanoi, Paris, and theEconomic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Cambodia,Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, would help build closer links among the universityand universities, institutions, business community and people in Japan for moreeffective cooperations in different fields.
It would also offer support and consultancy for Vietnamese students – who areworking and studying in Japan – vocational education and job recruitment, aswell as educational opportunities.
Vu Thi Lien Huong, first secretary of the Vietnamese embassy in Tokyo, said Vietnamhad 450,000 workers and students in Japan.
She said the introduction of the representative office of Dong A University inTokyo would play as a milestone in the celebration of the 50th anniversary ofJapan-Vietnam diplomatic ties.
Huong also highly appreciated the cooperation from the university with 82businesses and eight cities in Japan over the past years, and the sending of300 Vietnamese students to Japan was an endeavour in building long-termsustainable manpower education and cooperation.
The Da Nang-based university had sent 300 nursing and hospitality students toserve at medical centres, health care and shopping centres in Japan since 2017.
It said a group of 300 students qualified for recruitment by Japanese companiesin the Japanese-Vietnamese Culture Exchange and Jobs Enrollment Day in Da Nanglast week.
The university plans to send 500 students from 15 industries includinghospitality, hotel, restaurant, business management, information technology,control and automation, automobile engineering, and electronics to work inJapan from 2022-24.
Dong A University is the only education centre in central Vietnam supplyinghuman resources for the Japanese labour market. The university centre has beeneducating 9,000 students, including 2,000 studying the Japanese language, in 35industries.
Japan promoted its Consulate Office in Da Nang City to General Consulate just ayear after it was founded, to boost ties between Japan and the central cityearlier this year.
Head of the Japanese General Consulate, Yakabe Yoshinori said the relationshipbetween Japan and Da Nang would be further strengthened, and the number ofJapanese tourists and investors to Da Nang would increase in the post-COVID-19time.
He said high-quality human resources training in the Japanese language wouldplay a key role in boosting different exchanges between Japan and Vietnam, andthe General Consulate would promote the ties with Dong A University tocontribute to Japanese-Vietnamese diplomatic ties.
In eight cities in Japan including Fukuoka, Yokohama, Maebashi, Chiba,Shizuoka, Tokyo, Tottori and Nagasaki, 82 businesses had already inkedagreements on the recruitment of students from central Vietnam, offering 6,000job opportunities each year.
Osaka was the first province in Japan to receive students from central Vietnamfor one-year at-work training and internship courses at hospitals from March,after a deadlock due to COVID-19 in 2020-21.
The Air route from Narita, Japan to Da Nang would resume in the third quarterof 2022./.
VNA
