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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Comic classics for Japanese

HA NOI — A book collection of comics titled Danh Tac Viet Nam (Vietnamese Famous Literary Works) will be translated into Japanese and published in Japan later this year. Japan is considered one of the strongholds of the comic art form.

The collection includes Chi Pheo by Nam Cao and Giong To (Thunderstorm) by Vu Trong Phung.

The publishing work is being carried out by the Phan Thi Company, a pioneer publisher of Vietnamese comics. It aims to bring classic novels closer to young readers through comics.

The company has published many comics in the past 10 years, such as Than Dong Dat Viet (Vietnamese Child Prodigies) and Truyen Hay Su Viet (Interesting Stories of Vietnamese History).

Students who have forgotten Vietnamese history can quickly recall it through these books, said Phan Thi My Hanh, the company's director.

Diplomats to help disadvantaged

HCM CITY — The Consular Club of HCM City will organise its annual charity art auction to raise funds for disadvantaged people on March 4.

At the Art Auction, under the hammer will go paintings, decorative artworks and photographs by both Vietnamese and foreign artists and amateurs.

A highlight will be an antique Uchikake kimono, a formal Japanese garment often worn by brides or on stage.

The auction will be held at the Sherwood Residence, 127 Pasteur, District 3.

Last year more than 100 works of art were sold, including paintings by well-known artists like Nguyen Thi Kim Chi, Do Hoang Tuong, Nguyen Than and Tran Van Thao, raising over US$15,000.

The money has already been spent on 29 projects meant to improve the lives of the poor.

More bronze drums to be made

HA NOI — Kinh Do Investment and Media Company and the AMC Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, under the patronage of the Viet Nam Cultural Heritage Association and the Viet Nam Historical Science Association, plan to cast 37 bronze drums.

The traditionally made drums will be presented to the Hung Kings Temple in the northern province of Phu Tho, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ha Noi and Vietnamese embassies abroad.

Craftsmen from the central province of Thanh Hoa have been commissioned for the work.

The Viet Nam Historical Science Association is funding the project.

Hue student wins Japan design prize

HA NOI — Phan Khanh Trang from Hue University of Arts won the Grand Prize in a traditional cloth design competition sponsored by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Viet Nam.

The awards ceremony will be held today at the centre. Workshops and an exhibition of furoshiki – traditional Japanese cloth used to wrap everything from grocery items to presents – will run until March 10.

Literature, arts members meet

HA NOI — Representatives from 63 literature and art associations took part in the first annual meeting of the Union of the Viet Nam Literature and Arts Association in Ha Noi yesterday.

Members were discussing the association's activities in 2010 and plans for this year.

At the meeting, poet Huu Thinh, who is president of the association, said the focus last year was patriotism, humanity and social morals.

From 2010-15, he said the association's key task would be to promote public virtue and nurture new talent. — VNS

Timeout with a good book

Vietnamese comic books translated into Japanese

Shin’E Toshihiko (L), director of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office, talks with artists from the Danh Tac Viet Nam comic series - Photo: Tuong Vi

Phan Thi Media Education and Entertainment JSC has agreed for Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office to translate the company’s comic series Danh Tac Viet Nam (Vietnamese Famous Works) into Japanese.

Phan Thi adapted the country’s great literary works into comic books last year. Danh Tac Viet Nam has three famous titles Chi Pheo by Nam Cao, Tat Den (Turn off the light) by Ngo Tat To and Giong To (Thunderstorm) by Vu Trong Phung.

“It’s a great opportunity for Vietnamese comic books to be promoted in Japan, which is home to a great number of comics,” Shin’E Toshihiko, director of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office, told the Daily.

The titles will be translated into Japanese together with another comic book published by Phan Thi named Orange about basket ball at Vietnamese schools. The translations will be done by Japanese lecturers who are teaching the language in Vietnam.

In August the Japanese version will be entered into Comiket, the Japanese Comic Market, which is the world’s largest self-published comic book fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, in August and December. It attracts over a half million people to join and many amateur comic artists attend.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Modern dance blends tradition, hip-hop

HCM CITY — A dance performance featuring traditional music and hip-hop dance will be staged in Ha Noi and HCM City this week.

Faces is a work of German and French choreographers, Raphael Hillebrand and France Sebastien Ramirez, in collaboration with two musicians from Ha Noi, Hoang Thi Thanh Hoa and Ha Dinh Huy.

Nine Vietnamese dancers from well-known hip-hop groups, including Big Toe, Milky Way and Scared Crew, will wear faces that signify modern problems of youth.

The performance was created in 2008 as a collaboration between the Goethe Institute Viet Nam and L'Espace – the French Cultural Centre Ha Noi – supported by the Elysee Fund.

Performances will take place on Friday at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre in Ha Noi, and on Sunday at the Ben Thanh Theatre in HCM City.

Free tickets are available at the Goethe Institute in both cities from today. Faces will also travel to Paris and Berlin.

Japanese kimonos set to go on show

HCM CITY—A collection of kimonos, the traditional Japanese costume, will be showcased at a fashion show to be held in HCM City tonight by the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations and its partners.

Kimono for Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, directed by Katsuko Wakabayashi, will show off garments for children and women for each season.

Traditional Japanese and western wedding clothes will also be on display.

Models from Nagoya in Japan will wear the clothes and be assisted by Japanese make-up artists and hair stylists. HUFO will be joined by the Viet Nam-Japan Business Club, the Nagoya city Labour Union, and Japan-based arts organisations in organising the event.

It will be held at HUFO's premises at 31 Le Duaûn Street, District 1. — VNS

Friday, January 7, 2011

Capital to host Japanese anime fest

Taken aback: Movie Sprited Away will be screened at the first Japanese Animation Film Festival in Ha Noi next week. — File Photo

HA NOI — The first ever Japanese Animation Film Festival will be held in Ha Noi on January 12–16, 2011.

Sponsored by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (JACA), the festival will include eight outstanding animated films from the past decade.

The opening screening next Wednesday will be the highly acclaimed film, Colourful (2010), director Keiichi Hara's latest film.

"The movie will touch audiences with a story based on the award-winning novel for young adults," said Ikeda Hiroyuki from the Japan Image Council (JAPIC), which is co-organising the festival.

The story involves a spirit, referred to only as boku (me), who has recently died. The spirit is put in the body of a 14-year-old who recently committed suicide.

Colourful was extremely well received when it was released last August in Japan. Director Hara will make a speech at the opening screening.

The other seven films chosen for the festival, including Spirited Away (2001) by director Hayao Miyazaki, and Redline (2010) by director Takeshi Koike, are all distinguished and unique in their own right, and according to the organisers will enable viewers to more fully enjoy and "discover" the diversity of Japanese animation.

Redline is anticipated to be a highlight of the festival. Released in Japan last October, Redline took seven years to make and used approximately 100,000 handmade drawings.

"The whole thing has the feel of a high-speed car chase, and the exquisite attention to detail will be particularly evident to the audience in some of the explosions," said Ikeda Hiroyuki.

Spirited Away follows the adventures of Chihiro, a 10-year-old Japanese girl, as her family moves to a new town in the countryside.

Spirited Away earned tremendous critical acclaim both domestically and abroad, becoming the highest grossing film in Japanese history as well as receiving the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival.

Others films being screened include Millennium Actress, Mind Game, Summer War, Mai Mai Miracle and The Great Adventure of Hutch the Honeybee, and will all be shown at the festival with Vietnamese subtitles.

This event is part of an ongoing Japanese Film Festivals in Asia initiative begun by the JACA in 2004.

The initiative was designed to both deepen understanding and interest in Japanese culture abroad, as well as increase a sense of friendship between Japan and the countries in which they are held.

In addition to the upcoming festival in Ha Noi, a festival held in Seoul, South Korea in November last year screened an entirely different programme of 16 films.

"This is the first such event that has been held in Ha Noi as part of this initiative, and it also marks the first time a film festival devoted entirely to Japanese animation has taken place in Ha Noi," said Takeji Yoshikawa, director of the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange.

In connection with these screenings, Mai Mai Miracle's director Katabuchi Sunao, The Great Adventure of Hutch the Honeybee's director Amino Tetsuro and other special guests including popular voice actress Mitsuki Saiga will attend and take part in cultural exchange events with those involved in the animated film industry in Viet Nam.

Saiga is the Japanese voice actress who was awarded the Overseas Fan's Choice Awards at the Seiyu Awards 2010 for voice actor/actress.

A talk and live performance will be given by Saiga and guitarist Kazuya Nishikawa next Friday at the National Cinema Centre, located at 87 Lang Ha Street.

Free tickets for the festival are available now at the Japan Foundation, 27 Quang Trung Street, Ha Noi.

For a detailed screening schedule, please visit the website at www.jpf.org.vn. — VNS

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Japanese cartoon festival to be held in Ha Noi

HA NOI — An array of eight famous Japanese animated films will be screened at the National Cinema Centre on January 12-16.

The event is being jointly held by the Japanese Culture Department, the Japanese Cultural Exchange Centre in Viet Nam, the Cinematographic Department and the National Cinema Centre.

The festival will especially feature Spirit away directed by Miyazaki Hayao in 2001, which won the Golden Bear award in 2002 and was among the Oscar competitors for best animated feature film at the 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Spirit away tells about the adventures of a 10-year-old girl, Chihiro, who is accidentally thrown into a "spirit" world. While working at a bathhouse catering to spirits and gods, she tries to rescue her parents from a spell that transformed them into pigs.

Prior to the event, popular voice actress Mitsuki Saiga, guitarist Kazuya Nishikawa and several film makers will engage in an exchange with Vietnamese audience.

Cartoon pilgrims may get free tickets at the Japanese Cultural Exchange Centre at 27 Quang Trung Street, Hoan Kiem District, Ha Noi, as from 2pm on January 5.

Opera House to count down to New Year's Eve

HA NOI — A special New Year's Eve countdown party will be held outside the Ha Noi Opera House at 9pm on Friday to usher in the new year with entertainment and countdown clocks facing in four directions.

The programme, sponsored by Heineken, will feature performances by singers My Linh and Nguyen Duc Cuong and music by DJs Jonathan Glaser from Sweden, Tempo from the US and Tuan Kruise of Viet Nam.

TV festival celebrates individual contributions

CAÁN THO — Individual contributions were recognised for the first time at the 30th annual television festival that ended on Sunday in the southern city of Can Tho.

The Best Director award went to Bui Quoc Viet for Dam Laây Bac (Marsh), produced by VTV's Television Film Production Centre.

Best Actor was awarded to Huynh Cong for his role as Huynh Van Nghe in Vo Ngua Troi Nam (The South's Heroes), produced by HTV's Television Film Company.

Actress Ho Thanh Ngoc won Best Actress for her role as Lua in Me Chong Nang Dau (Mother and Daughter-in-Law) by Vinh Long Television.

Best Cameraman went to Nguyen Thanh Phuc for his work on Vo Ngua Troi Nam.

There were more than 750 entries at the festival, including documentaries, reports, TV series, theatre and musicals.

Seminars were also held at the festival on digital television and children's programming. — VNS

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Japanese fusion quartet plays Hanoi

A music show called Karin & Quartet Music Concert will be held in the Youth Theater in Hanoi for two consecutive nights on December 8 and 9.

Karin & Quartet will be accompanied by a 16-stringed Vietnamese harp played by Vo Van Anh (a.k.a. Vanessa Vo), as well as the voice of Thu Huyen, a promising cheo (Vietnamese folk opera) singer. The fusion of Japanese and Vietnamese music will be one of the exciting musical journeys this year.

Karin produces amazing sounds on her 25-stringed koto (Japanese harp). She has traveled the world, constantly finding new inspirations.

Akihito Obama, who will join her on the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), displays a combination of eloquent traditional techniques as well as fluency in Western styles. Also traveling are Mami Ishizuka on the piano, covering a wide range of musical elements from jazz to world music, and percussionist Aki-ra Sunrise who uses self-made and other instruments from around the world.

Admission is free. Tickets are available at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, 27 Quang Trung Street in Hanoi, tel: 3944 7419.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ha Noi all set to host annual Japanese language festival

HA NOI — The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Viet Nam and the Viet Nam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold a Japanese language festival in Ha Noi on October 17.

Participants will have a chance to exchange and express their linguistic abilities in the Japanese language. Three competitors will win a trip to Japan in the next two weeks.

First launched in 1997, the annual festival aims to encourage people to learn the Japanese language, study its culture, and strengthen friendship, solidarity and mutual understanding between the governments and peoples of Viet Nam and Japan.

In 2009, out of 300 contestants, Nguyen Huu Bao Trung from Ha Noi's University of Science and Technology won first prize.

Entrepreneur publishes books as gift for capital city's birthday

HA NOI — A HCM City entrepreneur has published 22 books on Ha Noi as a present to the city on its millennium.

Dang Duc Thanh, general director of HCM City-based Dream House Group, has collated the works of 168 researchers and entrepreneurs over the last three years.

The collection covers culture, economy, agriculture and environment, Thanh said.

The collection covers the Vietnamese economy and society including such topics as inflation, corruption and skills training.

The collection, which is now on sale throughout the country, has been endorsed by the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Painting of Old Quarter sells for $30,000 at Miss World auction

HA NOI — A gem-engraved painting of Ha Noi's Old Quarter sold for US$30,000 at the Miss World's charity auction in Shanghai.

The painting was the most expensive piece sold at the auction.

"I came on the stage with Miss Venezuela and Miss Wales. But I was surprised at the final price. It was much more than I expected," said Kieu Khanh, Vietnamese contestant at the contest.

Khanh's ao dai (traditional long dress), which was designed by Ngan An that featured an embroidered image of Tortoise Tower in Ha Noi's Sword Lake, received rave reviews at the event.

The final round of the Miss World contest will be held in Sanya, China, on October 30. — VNS

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Japanese film week promises exciting fare

Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” will be among eight films to be screened at a Japan film week to be held in Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang this month.

The movie, which has become a cult classic since being released in 1951, is about the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune).

At Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, several people shelter from a storm and discuss the crime which has shocked the region.

It won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1951 and the won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1952.

The other films to be screened are “Happy Flight”, “Tony Takitani”, “Kamikaze Girls”, “Sansho the Bailiff”, the cartoon “5 Centimeters Per Second”, “Yunagi City, Sakura Country” and “Memories of Tomorrow”.

The program is sponsored by the Japanese consulate in HCMC and the Japan Foundation.

“It will provide an opportunity for people to further understand the Japanese land, people, culture and society, from traditional to modern, through films,” the consulate said in a release.

The films will be shown from October 8 to 14 at BHD Star Cinema in HCMC’s district 10 and from 22nd to 24th at Hoang Hoa Tham cinema in Nha Trang.

Free tickets are available at the consulate in Nguyen Hue Street, HCMC, and the venue in Nha Trang.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Vietnam, Japan artisans to show off their skills

To he, the edible Vietnamese rice-flower figurines

To he, Vietnam’s traditional edible rice-flour toy figurine, and the Japanese art of making clay flowers will be on show at an annual cultural event in Hanoi Sunday organized by a student-run NGO.

Pieces of Culture is organized by Hanoikids, which seeks to promote Vietnam to the world. The volunteers group has in the past promoted Korean kim chi, Australian music, British weddings, and football from Italy.

This year two Hanoi artisans, Chu Tien Cong -- the deputy head of the To He club -- and Nguyen Van Nhuong of Xuan Ha village, will make to he figurines resembling animals, flowers, and characters from folk stories.

Akihiko Nakano, an economic adviser in the Japanese embassy, will provide a short introduction to the art of clay flower making.

Both the Vietnamese and Japanese artisans will also instruct visitors and help them make their own to he figurines and clay flowers.

To he is a traditional plaything for children that used to be made and sold only during festivals, especially Tet and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

But nowadays it can be seen at almost all traditional festivals and in public places.

The Japanese art uses clay mixed with water and coloring.

Pieces of Culture will be held at Room 802, Block C, Hanoi University.

Hanoikids was established in 2006.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Japanese TV highlights Vietnam’s Oc Eo culture

The Japanese TV channel BS, is filming a documentary on the ancient Oc Eo culture in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to highlight its unique cultural characteristics, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST).

As part of the project, from September 19-29, the film group will shoot scenes in Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Nam and An Giang provinces where the Oc Eo culture is found. The Japanese funded film will be approved by the MoCST before it is shown in Japan.

Discovered by a French scholar Louis Malleret and made public in 1944, the Oc Eo culture grew and developed in the southern delta, largely in An Giang, from the first to the sixth century AD.

In addition to An Giang, the scientists have discovered over 100 sites belonging to Oc Eo culture across the Mekong Delta provinces and parts of the south-eastern region with more than 50,000 artefacts made from various materials such as terra-cotta, stone, agate and metal.

The most common is ceramics, reflecting the cultural identity and origin of the culture.

Vietnam is currently proposing UNESCO recognise the ancient Oc Eo culture as a cultural heritage.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Hanoi set for nights of western classical music

Koyama Michie

The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will host concerts by world-renowned Japanese conductor Tetsuji Honna and Japanese pianist Koyama Michie this week.

Koyama, 51, will perform works by Beethoven like Leonore Overture No.1, Piano Concerto No.5 “Emperor” in E Major, and Symphony No.5 in C Minor.

She started learning the piano at the age of five and went to high school and university at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Koyama has won several international awards – in the 1980’s she became the first Japanese pianist to win prizes at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow and Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.

She has performed at major music festivals. In 1999 she took part in the International Chopin Festival in Spain, playing Mozart, Bach, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Chopin.

Tetsuji Honna, also a multiple award winner, has been the VNSO’s musical adviser and conductor since 2001.

The concerts will be held at the Hanoi Opera House Wednesday and Thursday and tickets will cost VND150,000 (US$7.70) to VND300,000.

Japanese culture enthralls HCMC youths

A cosplay performance at the Vietnam-Japan Day

Photo: Phuong Thuy

The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House was a splash of colors last Sunday: Young people were dressed up as Lolita and as characters from popular comic books; people sat around tables folding color papers under instruction from an origami group; camera flashes were going off everywhere.

It was the Vietnam- Japan Day hosted by the Japanese consulate, and the venue was filled with young people.

In another corner, some people were trying to make sense of ukiyo-e, or traditional Japanese paintings, featuring motifs like landscapes and historic tales.

Displayed in a room were an elegant red kimono, vases with flowers, handmade toys, and miniatures of Japanese heritage sites.

Kim Hoan, 24, looks closely at the miniatures, reading the descriptions in Japanese and Vietnamese, and occasionally explains to a friend.

“When I was a student, I often went to Japanese events like this,” Hoan, who majored in Japanese and is a regular at the annual event, says.

“Though I’m busy with work now, I still try to make time for this event.

“In previous years, there was only an exhibition of documents and pictures. This year, there are real objects that people can see and touch.”

There is a group of Asian youths. One speaks in Japanese and the other replies in Vietnamese. They are from the Tounichi Group, a Japanese club at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Science and Humanities.

“We’ve come here to see how Japanese culture is showcased,” Akaishi Hironori, who has learnt Vietnamese for three years and plans to get a degree in Vietnamese studies, explains.

“I can see the connection between the two cultures. For example, Vietnamese banana flowers are used in the Japanese flower arrangement, which I have never seen before,” Hironori says pointing to a large white vase with a variety of beautiful flowers.

“I really appreciate Vietnamese who are interested in Japan,” Nakamura Keiichi, who is in intermediate Vietnamese class says. “Friends at school sometimes ask me about different aspects of Japanese culture”

Hironori adds: “The event is indeed a good opportunity to promote our culture. However, I’d like to see more interaction between Japanese and Vietnamese -- like talk shows and music performances by people from the two countries.”

Present at the festival to support the drama performance by his Vietnamese students is Hidehisha Yusa, a teacher and manager of Nicco Japanese School.

“In our school, we have speech contests and Japanese festivals. This event is on a larger scale and open to everyone, not just students of Japanese. I’m delighted to see so many people coming today.”

Asked what event he had been most anticipating, he replies instantly: “Cosplay -- it is so colorful and fun!”

Cosplay, short for costume play, is a performance art in which participants dress up to represent fictional characters, mostly out of comic books. The art, which began in Japan, has now spread worldwide and is a big attraction among young people.

Indeed, at the Youth Cultural House, the cosplay venue was mobbed by people longing to see their favorite comic characters. There are excited shouts and screams and thunderous applause at the beginning and end of each performance.

At the back, standing on his toes to get a view past the throng, is Thomas Paine, an American who teaches history in the city.

“I used to live in Japan for two years and enjoy comic books, science fiction, and beautiful cosplay shows. It is great to see the cosplay performances today. I’m happy!”

After the performance, your correspondent met up with a petite French blonde in black glasses. But she turned out to be a Vietnamese girl, Truc Anh, 13.

She fell in love with Japanese comic books while in primary school and is a member of some cosplay groups on Facebook. Truc Anh takes part in cosplay performances three times a year, playing characters like Lolita and the comic book Card captor Sakura’s heroine Sakura Kinomoto.

“My parents allow me to do it as long as it doesn’t affect my study,” she replies when asked if they know about her interest.

“The costumes are a bit expensive but I don’t want to ask for money from them [parents]. And I hardly earn anything from cosplay performances. So, I have begun an online shop with a friend and we make enough money for the clothes.”

She points to her French maid costume and says it cost VND350,000 (US$18).

At 6pm the event is over but many people still linger.

“Japan has a very rich culture and they know how to turn normal things like drinking tea or arranging flowers into an art,” Hoan says.

“It is because they feel strongly about the need to preserve and promote their culture. I hope we can advertise more of our culture to the world like them.”

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Top Japanese cosplayers come to Hanoi

A photo and video exhibition on Japanese Cosplayers will open at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi September 11-23.

The work follows YuRiE, a collaborative cosplay team formed by two young Japanese cosplayers - YuRi and RiE.

The group won the cosplay championships at the World Cosplay Summit 2009. Their cosplay and performance as Sanada Hiroyuki and Date Masamune, the characters from the computer game Sengoku Basara, were highly acclaimed by both the juries and the audience at the annual Summit in Nagoya, Japan.

Cosplayers dress up as characters from animations, manga and games. It is the art of making two dimensional images three dimensional.

Besides the exhibition, YuRiE will participate in Acctive Expo 2010 in Hanoi where a lot of pop culture activities are packed in one day event held at Hanoi Children’s Palace (36 Ly Thai To) September 12. YuRiE will be the judges of “Cos’Night” in which five selected groups of Vietnamese cosplayers will compete, followed by a performance from YuRiE.

The center is at 27 Quang Trung Street, Hoan Kiem District.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Hoi An-Japan cultural exchange opens

A Hoi An-Japan cultural exchange opened in Hoi An, the ancient town in the central province of Quang Nam, on Saturday.

During the two-day event, various cultural activities will be held, including an exhibition showcasing photos on Hoi An ancient town and documentary photos on Hoi An-Japan cultural exchanges and an artistic painting exhibition entitled “Colors of Heritages”.

There will be a seminar on cultural heritage preservation and tourism development, an introduction of Japanese cuisine and performances of Japanese musical instruments and children’s games.

In the opening night, Vietnamese and Japanese artists jointly performed special dances from both countries such as lion and royal dances.

The event, co-organized by the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Hoi An People’s Committee, offers a chance for artists in particular and the people of the two countries in general to exchange and share their own special cultural characteristics, thus helping boost the friendship between the two nations.

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