(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Special Advisor to the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Parliamentarian Alliance Tsutomo Takabe in Hanoi on Tuesday.

Mr. Phuc said Vietnam values the strategic partnership with Japan and that he believed bilateral ties will continue to prosper. He praised Mr. Takebe’s efforts to organize the Japan-Vietnam Festival in Vietnam, which helps to strengthen exchanges and mutual understanding between the two nations.

Mr. Takebe pledged to contribute to exchanges at all levels and agricultural cooperation between the two countries. Concerning the Vietnam-Japan University, he said he hopes it will become a symbol of the two countries’ determination to boost cooperation in education.