At the press conference, Prime Minister Hung announced that the two sides had signed six important documents in space technology, information and communication, irrigation, infrastructure development adapted to natural disasters, climate change, and carbon growth.
Both stressed the need to strengthen economic cooperation, including economic security, energy security, and sustainable agriculture. They will promote market access for agricultural products, boost cooperation on official development assistance (ODA), and economic, energy, and food security.
Vietnam and Japan voiced determination to concretize cooperation in science and technology, green transformation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors. They will jointly organize a meeting of the Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation in 2026 and announce co-funding of 15 joint research projects on semiconductors.
Both sides agreed to further human resource integration and people-to-people exchanges, cooperation between localities, in labor, health, culture, and tourism, while forging closer cooperation and mutual support in global and regional forums.
The two Prime Ministers reaffirmed the importance of resolving disputes in the East Sea through peaceful means, based on international law. Vietnam supports Japan's initiatives in the region, including the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision (FOIP), based on its connection with the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and adherence to international law.
Prime Minister Takaichi said that strengthening cooperation with Vietnam is of paramount importance for the realization and development of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) initiative. She agreed to promote cooperation to jointly build stronger and more prosperous Japan, Vietnam, and the Indo-Pacific region. In the economic field, both sides agreed to identify new priority areas for bilateral cooperation as economic security, including energy, critical minerals, AI, semiconductors, and space; security cooperation; and people-to-people exchanges.
On Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae met with National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man at the National Assembly building in Hanoi. She visited and delivered a policy speech at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
On Saturday morning, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae visited an exhibition of photos showcasing the cooperative relationship between the two countries.
In the presence of Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, ministries, agencies, and localities of the two countries exchanged six cooperation documents.
They include loan agreements between the Vietnamese Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a disaster-resilient rural development project and a climate-resilient infrastructure project supporting production for ethnic minority communities in northern mountainous provinces
Other documents are a Memorandum of Cooperation on low-carbon growth between the Government of Vietnam and the Government of Japan for implementing the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM); an MoU on irrigation technology and technical exchange the exchange of technology and techniques in the field of water resources; an MoU on cooperation in ICT and digital transformation; and an amended agreement on satellite data sharing between the Vietnam National Space Centre and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
