On June 29, 2026, the Commercial Office of the Consulate General of Viet Nam in Osaka, in coordination with a working delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Hung Yen Province, successfully organized the Viet Nam–Japan Trade and Investment Promotion Conference in Osaka 2026. The conference was attended by representatives of Japanese business-support organizations in the Kansai region, including the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI Kansai), the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), the International Business Promotion Center Osaka (IBPC Osaka), friendship associations, economic, trade and cultural exchange organizations between Viet Nam and Japan, and representatives of approximately 100 enterprises.
In his opening remarks, Consul General of Viet Nam in Osaka Nguyen Truong Son highly appreciated the strong participation of the business community, which demonstrated substantial interest in trade and investment cooperation between the two countries. He expressed his expectation that the conference and the business-matching sessions, by enabling enterprises from both sides to meet and exchange views directly, would help create effective business cooperation opportunities and contribute to optimizing supply chains. The Consul General affirmed that the Consulate General of Viet Nam in Osaka and the Commercial Office would continue to accompany and support localities, industrial parks and enterprises of the two countries in seeking partners and expanding investment and trade cooperation.
Mr. Le Hoang Tai, Deputy Director General of the Viet Nam Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, presented an overview of Viet Nam–Japan economic cooperation. He emphasized that Japan is one of Viet Nam’s leading investment and trade partners, with Japan’s accumulated investment in Viet Nam reaching around USD 79 billion across more than 5,700 projects, while bilateral trade turnover in 2025 exceeded USD 50 billion. On the basis of free trade agreements and the global trend of supply-chain restructuring, Viet Nam continues to be a promising investment destination for Japanese enterprises.
Representing the Japanese side, Mr. Sakuro Ito, Director for International Business, International Affairs Department, Economic Strategy Bureau, Osaka City, and Board Member of the Osaka Business Partner City Council, highly valued the significance of the program in promoting connections between enterprises in Osaka and the Kansai region and Vietnamese agencies, localities and businesses. He noted that trade-promotion activities, direct meetings and business matching play an important role amid the growing demand for economic cooperation between the two countries.
The representative of the Viet Nam Trade Promotion Agency gave a general presentation on Viet Nam’s economic, trade and investment situation; Viet Nam’s role in the restructuring of global production and supply chains; and the country’s advantages in human resources, market potential, infrastructure, free trade agreements and its orientation toward attracting high-quality investment.
Mr. Vu Thanh Van, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of Hung Yen Province, introduced the province’s potential, advantages and opportunities for investment and trade cooperation. Hung Yen holds a strategic location in the Northern Key Economic Region, with convenient connections to seaports, airports and major industrial centers. The province currently hosts 190 Japanese FDI projects with total registered capital of nearly USD 6.5 billion. It wishes to continue attracting projects in high-tech industry, supporting industries, logistics, green production and other sectors with high added value. IBPC Osaka also delivered a presentation on its role in supporting enterprises and promoting Osaka’s international cooperation, and stated that it would continue to strengthen connections with Vietnamese agencies, localities and enterprises in the coming time.
Following the conference, the program organized direct business-matching sessions between Vietnamese and Japanese enterprises. With nearly 20 business-matching tables involving 30 enterprises, the program recorded more than 100 meetings and connections. During the B2B sessions, representatives of Vietnamese enterprises and industrial parks and Japanese companies exchanged directly on cooperation needs, investment opportunities, industrial land funds, technical infrastructure, investor support policies, product supply capacity and participation in supply chains.
Within the framework of the working visit to Osaka, the delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Hung Yen Province also attended a business-matching program with enterprises of the Viet Nam–Japan Association for Economic, Trade and Cultural Exchange in Osaka, and held a working session with the Japan External Trade Organization in Osaka (JETRO Osaka). At these meetings, the parties exchanged views on investment trends among Japanese enterprises in the new period, the need for market-information sharing, support for business connections, and the possibility of coordinating future trade and investment promotion activities.
The Consulate General of Viet Nam in Osaka and the Osaka Commercial Office actively accompanied and supported the delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Hung Yen Province during its activities in Osaka, including connections with Japanese agencies and organizations, support for the conference and business-matching program, and specialized working sessions. This close coordination contributes to further strengthening trade and investment cooperation between Viet Nam and Japan in general, and between Vietnamese localities, industrial parks and enterprises and the Osaka–Kansai region in particular, toward realizing the target set by the leaders of the two countries: raising two-way trade turnover to USD 60 billion and Japanese investment in Viet Nam to USD 5 billion per year by 2030.