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At the meeting, Yuji said a Kaganawa festival will be held on pedestrian streets around Ho Guom (Returned Sword lake) in the heart of Hanoi on November 19 and 20 as one of the highlights of culture cooperation between the two countries. The Kaganawa festival was first held in Hanoi in 2018, although it endured a period of disruption for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yuji hoped that the event would contribute to deepen relations between Kaganawa in particular, Japan in general, and Vietnam. He said a Vietnam festival in Kanagawa Prefecture in September 2022 attracted over 100,000 arrivals, noting such annual festival not only promotes cultural exchanges, but also presents economic cooperation opportunities. Since 2015 there have been 12 Vietnamese businesses pouring investment into Kanagawa Prefecture, whilst 24 businesses from the Japanese locality have poured investment into the Vietnamese market, he stressed. Minister Hung expressed hope that his ministry and Ka...

Other targets set out for the team, currently 96th in FIFA rankings, at Sunday’s VFF congress, which elected Tran Quoc Tuan as its new president, included becoming one of the 10 strongest football teams in Asia and advancing to the third qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup for Asia. On the continental scale, their objectives are qualifying for the quarterfinals of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup and the finals of the 2027 AFC Asian Cup. The team will also aim to reach the three final matches of the AFF Cup in 2022, 2024, and 2026 and win at least once. For the junior men’s team, VFF desires them to be qualified for the finals and achieve a high ranking at the AFC U23 Asian Cup in 2024 and 2026, as well as successfully defend the gold medal at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in 2023 and 2025. For the national men’s futsal team, placing 40th in the world, they must be among the three strongest teams in Southeast Asia and qualify for the finals of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup in 2024 a...