Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosts a welcoming ceremony for Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. (Photo: Lai Hoa/ VOV)

The statement affirmed Vietnam and Japan would closely cooperate and further strengthen the cooperation towards a new era of Vietnam. The contents related to promoting important specific cooperation projects, including those in security-defense-diplomacy, economy, people-to-people exchange, locality-to-locality cooperation, culture-education, cooperation in multilateral mechanisms and plans for the coming time.

On political-security-defense-diplomatic cooperation, apart from existing collaboration mechanisms, the two Prime Ministers agreed to closely coordinate towards re-launching the Joint Committee on Science and Technology in 2026, promote maritime dialogue, establish a 2+2 dialogue mechanism at the deputy foreign and defense minister level and hold its first meeting in Japan in 2025.

Based on Vietnam’s objective of training 50,000 semiconductor specialists by 2030, the two Prime Ministers agreed to promote the development of human resources in the semiconductor sector through cooperation with higher education institutions, including the Vietnam-Japan University, technical colleges, and research institutes. The Japanese side positively acknowledged the proposal concerning 29 projects that Vietnam wishes to implement towards emissions reduction.

Both sides agreed to elevate cooperation in science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation to become new pillars of the Vietnam-Japan bilateral relationship.