User:Donald Trung/Democratic Republic of Vietnam–Japan relations expansions (October 2022)

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Unofficial relations
Despite there not being any official diplomatic ties between Japan and North Vietnam between 1954 and 1973, private exchanges were gradually being rebuilt. In March 1955 the Japanese Japan–Vietnam Friendship Association was created and in August of that year the Japan–Vietnam Trade Association was established. Meanwhile, in 1965 North Vietnamese Vietnam–Japan Friendship Association would be established to help maintain unofficial relations between the two countries.

North Vietnam and Japan
On 21 September 1973, Japan and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) signed the "Exchange of Notes Concerning the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Japan and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam" in Paris, this document was in the French language and restored the diplomatic relations between Japan and North Vietnam. On the Japanese side the document was signed by Yoshihiro Nakayama, the Japanese Ambassador to France, while for the North Vietnamese side the document was signed by the Charge d'Affaires ad interim of North Vietnam to France Võ Văn Sung.

With the re-establishment of relations between Japan and North Vietnam the Japanese agreed to resolve what are termed "unsolved problems", which after earlier negotiations in Vientiane, Kingdom of Laos, these "unsolved problems" revolved around grants given by the Japanese State to North Vietnam. Between 1973 and 1975 the Japanese and North Vietnamese governments held over 20 both official and unofficial meetings, on 6 October 1975 both sides finally reached and agreement and the Japanese would provide the North Vietnamese with an endowment worth 13.5 billion yen. Of this money, 8.5 billion yen would be used to purchase heavy farmland cultivation machinery as well as public works provided by Japanese-owned corporations.

Earlier, the Japanese already gave similar funding to the South Vietnamese, which also re-established official diplomatic relations with Japan during the same period.

After diplomatic relations were re-established, in 1975, Japan would would open an embassy in Hanoi and North Vietnam would open an embassy in Tokyo. The Japanese embassy in Hanoi was established by Yukio Imagawa, the first Chargé d'affaires ad interium to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and opened on 11 October 1975. The first North Vietnamese Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary to Japan, Nguyễn Giáp was appointed by Decision No. 120/NQ/QH/K5 issued by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 29 April 1976.

On 30 January 1976 the Consul-General of Japan in Honolulu in the United States, Takaaki Hasegawa, was appointed to become the Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary to North Vietnam.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Japan
In 1978 the first Official development assistance (ODA) loan given by the Japanese government to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, but then the Official development assistance loans would cease until November 1992, a year after the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements in October 1991 which officially ended the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

In the fiscal year 1997 the Japanese government would grant a loan an ODA loan which financed the development telecommunication systems in rural areas of Central Vietnam, this project was approved by Decision No. 447/QĐ-TTg signed by Ngô Xuân Lộc on 1 June 1998. The development of telecommunications systems was seen as both a key economic sector and a significant factor of economic development helping both the industrialisation and modernisation of rural areas.

On 30 October 1998 the Hải Vân Tunnel Construction Project was started, which was mainly financed by a loan provided by the Japanese Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF).

21st century content to add
In early 2000 the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) financed a Red River Bridge Construction Project (namely, the Thanh Trì Bridge) as well as the building of the southern portion of Hanoi Ring Road No. 3. The Thanh Trì Bridge at the time of its opening was the longest among seven viaducts in the Hanoi area that connect both sides of the Red River.

Following the sudden death of the chairperson of the Japan–Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians' Union, Keizo Obuchi, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000 and contributed significantly to the relations of Japan and Vietnam on 14 May 2000, the Vietnamese President Trần Đức Lương signed Decision No. 215KT/CTN on 2 June 2000 which awarded him the Order of Friendship.

In December 2003 saw the establishment of the Vietnam–Japan Joint Initiative, which was created to make Vietnam more business-friendly for Japanese businesses.

In October 2006 the joint statement "Toward a Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia" was made to help increase economic partnerships between the two countries. 

In March of that year the top leaders of both countries agreed to upgrade bilateral relations to be an "Extensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia", this new relationship promised to let both countries collaborate more closely with each other in a large number of fields including politics, economics, national security, culture, and human exchange.

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 * https://www.archives.go.jp/event/jp_vn45/english/ch04.html