Japan needs to help Vietnam in building military drones, sharing intelligence, especially information from observations in the East Sea (South China Sea) to help both defense and civilian goals. Those are some of the recommendations that Dr. Tran Duc Anh…
Tokyo prosecutors have charged three officials of a Japanese plastic company with bribing Vietnamese tax and customs officials to evade tax payments by the company’s branch in Vietnam. The special investigation unit of the Tokyo District Prosecutors’ Office on May…
Vietnam has so far selected only three countries as “comprehensive strategic partners” namely Russia, China, and India. The US has proposed three times to upgrade its relationship with Vietnam to a “strategic partner” (lower than “comprehensive strategic partnership”) but Vietnam…
Tokyo police have just arrested a Vietnamese officer studying at the Japan National Defense Academy on suspicion of selling residence cards, Japanese media quoted the Tokyo police announcement as saying on January 21. Accordingly, the organized crime control agency of…
Vietnam and Japan November 23 signed an agreement on cyber security cooperation as the two Asian nations tighten defense ties amid concerns about China’s growing assertiveness. Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang and his Japanese counterpart, Minister Nobuo Kishi, witnessed…
Closer defense ties between Japan and Vietnam could have an impact on regional security but not to the extent of provoking China, two experts told BBC News Vietnamese. The helicopter carrier JS Kaga and the destroyer JS Murasame of the…
The role of the Quartet is increasing The Quartet plays an increasingly important role in curbing Chinese influence. The Chinese government has always viewed the Quartet as a US-led effort to contain and counter China’s global rise, and the group’s…
By early July 2021, Tokyo donated 2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam made in Japan: the first 1 million doses were delivered on June 16 and the next 1 million doses were delivered in two batches, on July…
“We interviewed more than 1,500 people, but 99% ended their self-introductions with the affirmation ‘No matter how hard we work, we will do our best.” “It would be great if those were the words of people who really want to…
The democratic coalition quartet is strengthening under President Biden to counterbalance the rise of Chinese influence in the region and do Hanoi’s national security goals coincide with this quartet? The first meeting of the heads of state of the US,…
