Director of the centre, Takeji Yoshikawa, says there will be an exhibition on Japan’s contemporary art, performances by Japan’s leading pantomime artist Naoki Ikimuro and a Japanese film festival in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.

The centre will also organise concerts and film screening as well as events to introduce several Japanese books which have been translated into Vietnamese.

Within the framework of the culture exchange programme between the two countries and in preparation for the centre’s second founding anniversary, the centre plans to invite several Vietnamese artists to visit Japan.

The Japan-Vietnam Culture Exchange Centre, under the Japan International Exchange Foundation was established in 2008 and is the fifth representative office of the foundation in Southeast Asia.

During the last two years, the centre has been working to boost cultural cooperation between the two countries, focusing on supporting Japanese language teaching at Vietnam’s high schools.