MR. SATOSHI NAKAJIMA, CONSUL GENERAL OF JAPAN IN HO CHI MINH CITY: I BELIEVE IN JAPANESE SCIENTISTS

That was the statement claimed by Satoshi Nakajima, Consul General of Japan at the meeting with representatives of the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) on November 06, 2014. The meeting participants consisted of Assoc.Prof.Dr. Vo Van Sen, HCMC USSH’s President; Dr. Tran Dinh Lam, Director of the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies; Assoc.Prof.Dr. Doan Le Giang, Dean of the Department of Literature and Languages; Bang Anh Tuan (MA), Head of the Office of International Cooperation. Upon the occasion, the Japanese Consul General would like to get a better understanding of the university’s operation as well as exchanges between it and Japanese bodies, institutes and schools.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Vo Van Sen, USSH’s President, shared information about human resources training, scientific research, technology transfer and strategies for building up and developing the University with the aim of keeping up with socio-economic advancement and meeting requirements of Vietnam’s industrialization and modernization. Particularly, HCMC USSH has formed a good relationship with Japanese institutes and universities as well as with Japanese companies in terms of research cooperation and technology transfer.

Upon the meeting, Satoshi Nakajima hoped that in the future, there would be practical cooperative programs between Japanese higher education institutions and HCMC USSH in particular, and Vietnam in general, in human resources training, especially in the field of agriculture and health service, which are competitive advantages of Japan. Now Japan’s population is growing old, leading to the decrease in its workforce, which is opposite to Vietnam’s situation; therefore, it is necessary to have cooperation with Japan in training labor for those fields.

The Consul General also mentioned that Japan has learned Germany’s economic model thanks to their similarities in culture, constitution and the political system. The former highly values the latter’s constitutional model since the Western model is aimed at shaping a culture with strict law. In addition, he emphasized that building a company’s trademark requires investment and devotion, not racing with quantity. The University’s leaders also happily talked about great effects of funds provided by the Japanese government and other bodies on the university’s development during the past years. They hoped that the Consul General would play a role as a bridge to the cooperative relationship between HCMC USSH and Japanese counterparts in various aspects, especially in terms of education. Besides, the Consul General appreciated the number of Vietnamese people attending the Japanese Language Proficiency Test annually (about 15,000 each year), which forms a potential for the future cooperation and economic development between the two countries.

In response to what the Consul General talked about education and training of human resources of high quality, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Vo Van Sen would like Vietnam to follow Japan as an example in developing its own human resources to make progress in cultural, economic and social affairs. The meeting was also aimed at having Japan provide more support for Vietnam in training workforce to promote studies on social sciences and humanities as well as offering agriculture and health care scholarships to Vietnamese students and postgraduates so they can study and do research in Japan. With its current advantages in technology, economics and high prestige, the country has implemented plans to provide aid to developing countries, including Vietnam, in order to promote more mutual cooperation and build up a peaceful and prosperous Southeast Asia.

Although having been just appointed as the Consul General since April 2014, he has been working in Vietnam for 30 years; therefore, he shows a deep understanding and great love of the indigenous culture, thanks to which he can speak fluent, academic and standard Vietnamese in discussions about different issues during the meeting.

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