US dollars is now 76 yen, but 5 years ago, it was 115 yen, and even before, japan was too expensive to produce
japan can no more sell products, because japanese products too expensive

some japanese told USD dollars are even 50 yen next 5 years future

japanese economy must move to services, finance, R&D like USA.

japanese companies move out of japan, and look to overseas.

many years ago and even now, taiwan, south korea, china made OEM products of japanese products and parts and assemblement before, but now even better than japanese companies in multi fields.

japan made average 100 billion USD (by memory) per year by licensing the technology, research, to foreign nations. instead, foreign nations make more money using japanese high technology and pay like 5-10% of economic profits to japan .


japan should do the same to vietnam and to indonesia, and increase the friendship between japan and vietnam. japan cannot produce the goods, so no competition relationship, but the mutal benefits to both nations.

alos, many technology in japan is not econometized, because of too strong yen, and probabbly new class of business can starts in vietnam


japanese banks also loaned moeny to korea, taiwan, and china until 1997, 90% of korea foreign loans from japan.

japanese banks can also loan money to future promising vietnamese companies.

I met a Japanese lady today and she's quite nice

this is code for...Xigon looking at herself in the mirror

Nope. She's my teacher's wife

Every time you see a Vietnamese-Japanese friendship thread, you just got to jump in and troll right? Don't worry, Japanese and Koreans love Filipinos too.

actually what attracted to0 me here was you replied to it

What's with my response? We all know how you love Japanese and Korean through your promotion of Filipina brides in Japan and Korea. No need to hide.

not your response...just that you replied...

What's up with it? Viet members can't reply to thread in Viet Chat?

You're one freaking lame troll.

all this because I took a chance on a zinger

DPSlock has a crush on XigonCongchua.

Great, i have been in many Viet-Japanese traditional festival, i realised that we really get along well, and i kinda like Japanese life style.

I think Vietnamese have a lot of economic potential, together with Japanese i think we can form a new economic power, a new organisation which have a lot of potential, then Viet can leave SEA which potential is limited.

Chinese goods is of course can be mass produced easily, but its cannot compare to Vietnamese products quality. On top of it, chinese good is more and more expensive and can compete with Japanese in the near future, so why don't we shake our hand and make ourselves stronger.

I like your ideal, mister A-i-sờ-lan-đờ Bờ-rô-đơ.

always heartening to see asians liking each other and getting along

bad joke. 1#!!$@$%@#$%#^$&%^&^*&

Yes, good idea. Japan gets lower cost labor yet better quality manufacturing. This is important - it can buy Japan some breathing room to plan and setup strategies for the future. Japan needs breathing room after all that's happened(recession, heavy competition, earthquake, tsunami...)


Likewise, Vietnam gets hands on high tech training. To he a high tech industry, one needs lots of trained workers that can read resisters, solder, assemble circuit boards etc... This would help jump start Vietnam's own Technological industry. The Koreans started in the 70s with ship building and 40 years later they have gain significant world market share. Vietnam can do the same.

i took a screenshot of a cute japanese guy's house once and sent it to him via facebook and told him i biked past just to get a picture and he believed me does that promote japan-vietnam relations (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

that promotes stalker phobia

What Vietnam needs the most right now is to develop its supporting industries. Japan and Korea have been a lot of help through their investments in Vietnam. Kudos to both countries. Vietnam should not only wait for sourcing work to gain the technical know-hows, but it needs to go on a shopping spree to buy up foreign companies. This will be the quickest route toward developing its industrial base.

japanese companies move to vietnam and transfer high technology industry to vietnam
vietnam gets technology, customer base, and experienced ensineers.

south korea and taiwan becomes next japan , and vietnam becomes next south korea and next taiwan.

Vietnam is heading in the right direction. It got a lot of catching up to do. The trade embargo held us back 10-15 yeears in the 80s. We need the government's focus&support for incubating the domestic supporting industries, either through joint ventures or technology buy-outs.

I'll say this in Vietnamese because I don't want to unintentionally offend some people and cause pointless fights...

Ở Việt Nam hiện giờ có những từ dùng để chế nhạo Trung Quốc, Hàn Quốc, và Mỹ...Trung quốc thì bị gọi là khựa, Hàn Quốc thì bị gọi là "hàn xẻng" (bởi vì chữ quốc trong tiếng Bắc đọc giống chữ "cuốc", mà cuốc thì đi đôi với "xẻng"), còn Mỹ thì bị gọi là "Mẽo" ...Thực ra những từ này không phải lúc nào cũng có ý xấu, đôi khi người ta chỉ dùng chúng để đùa với nhau thôi...Nhưng đặc biệt là trong khi giới trẻ Việt Nam có những từ ngữ dùng để chế nhạo các cường quốc có ảnh hưởng/liên quan đến Việt Nam như Mỹ, Hàn, Trung...họ không có từ nào để chế nhạo Nhật, điều đó chứng tỏ người Việt Nam rất coi trọng người Nhật, họ không có điểm xấu nào để chế nhạo trong con mắt của người Việt Nam...bạn của Xigon cũng nói vậy, cô ta bảo Nhật không có cái gì xấu hết. Lúc trước thì có từ "Nhật lùn" để gọi Nhật, nhưng bây giờ thì từ đó không còn nữa.

No if we have a chance we could surpass them in the near future... i don't like being similar to SK and taiwan, there are a lot negative things in their economic\political system.

Japan'll become a great country as well as Vietnam and Vietnam would be Japan best friend.

Japan likes vietnam and many cultures are similar to japanese native cultures like languange. wet rices is probably also from vietnam.


also, if vietnam is friend with other south east asia, it is better, because japan likes other south east asia and east india, who is ancient friend shares the DNA roots.


vietnam and japan together, make the world industrial and manufacturing bases.

Unlike Korea and Taiwan, Vietnam does not have any hatred against Japan because Japan did not colonize Vietnam, only for a brief period during World War 2.

japanese companies move to vietnam, and turn vietnam into the next center of electronics after south korea and taiwan.

also, taiwan also will more factories of japanese companies.



Panasonic Invest 17 Billion Yen To Build PCB Factory In Vietnam

Due to favorable demand for smart phones will be showed an obvious growth, Panasonic Electronic Devices will invest 17 billion yen in Vietnam to build a PCB factory for smart phone. Panasonic said the PCB factory produce their own developed ALIVH (Any Layer Interstitial Via Hole) PCBs, it is expected that they will begin volume production in August 2012, monthly capacity will be of 3.5 million units. Vietnam will become the second production bases of ALIVH for Panasonic at overseas. Panasonic just announced on May 16 of this year, not only to plan to build factory of ALIVH in Taoyuan County Block B ,Taiwan, they will also amplify the production capacity of existing factory in Taiwan, their goal is to increase monthly production capacity in Taiwan in 2011 to the scale of 600 million units, equivalent to four times of the current (refer to the actual capacity of 2010,1.5 million units). It is to be completed in the mass production factory in Vietnam, after that, overseas ALIVH monthly production capacity of Panasonic will be expanded to the 6 time of current, equal to 9.5 million units. At present, ALIVH monthly capacity of Panasonic in Japan is 8.5 million , and it is estimated in 2012 the production levels will remain the same. ALIVH is the world’s first developed by Panasonic to achieve full-thickness IVH (Interstitial Via Hole) multilayer PCB construction products, and in October 1996,it was used for the first time on board of the Matsu$hita Electric Industrial (now Panasonic) phone manufacturing, until in march in 2011,the world’s total shipments exceeded 400 million units.

are u kidding? taiwan is the most pro-japan country in asia if not the world. i met many taiwanese who were infatuated with japanese culture and anime. taiwan also donated the most for the tohoku earthquake.

check this video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPwOrmdlMs

hopefully vietnam-japan relations will reach to the same level

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/pol...rary/data/01615


Viewing Japan from Vietnam
Disaster ironically helped Japan’s image
By Devin T. Stewart
September 13, 2011

© 2011 The Oriental Economist. Reproduced here with kind permission.

The March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear accident have led some to question the health of Japan's "brand" or image abroad. Before March 11, Japanese products, services, and business partnerships in recent years had enjoyed a halo effect emanating from Japan's reputation as a land of safety, efficiency, and trustworthiness. But as renowned columnist Yoichi Funabashi warns in the new book Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future that Works, "Instead of viewing Japan as a haven of immunity from danger and inconvenience, many around the world now perceive the country as fraught with peril and discomfort." The impact of the recent disasters on Japan's reputation has been one of the focal points of experts who worry that the disaster would damage the prospects of Japan's strategic growth industries such as cuisine, tourism, services, and assorted precision parts vital to the Information Technology era. But this is not the whole story.

Rather it is the perseverance and calm that Japanese society demonstrated during the crisis that remains the enduring image of Japan in the minds of many people. A case in point is in Vietnam, a country I visited in June to conduct research on attitudes toward Japan and the United States. Every Vietnamese expert with whom I spoke—including policymakers, businesspeople, academics, journalists, and consultants—told me that their impression of Japan had in fact been further enhanced since the March 11 earthquake. As one senior advisor to the Vietnamese government said to me, "Increasingly Vietnam sees Japan as a counterweight to China, and after March 11 Japanese people seemed more human to Vietnamese. The earthquake broke stereotypes [about Japan being mysterious]. Now Vietnam feels closer to Japan."

I'm not going to lie... filopinos are awesome. I haven't met one I didn't like yet.

oh come off it. "counterweight to china"?? is this what it's really about?

Aren't you Iranian or something?

SoCal, you are not looks like a vietnamese to me now, Vietnamese use their brain... not their mouth... do you think say that out lound makes us feel better?

common we help them because we are just like asian siblings, we did take part in a lot of traditional festival together. And almost all of Vietnamese help japanese, not just some organisation.

Really, I thought that Vietnamese is the one who donated the most for tohoku diaster.

oh hell no man, they are kinda father and daughter, but for us we are sibling.

And of course Taiwan is kinda pro-Japanese, because Japan help Taiwan a lot.

sibling? naw. i think taiwan is the sibling here. both japan and taiwan are democratic, developed and technologically advanced. but i can see a future when vietnam will join the brotherhood

When Japan, Korea/Taiwan, and Vietnam are fully developed; they are on par with each other.

what about thailand and philippines? do u think they will be on par with the sinosphere countries?

Because we are smart, efficient and moral, all of Asia will eventually prosper or reach a level of prosperity in balance with each ones traditional values and culture.

LOL you people. Taiwanese are Chinese. Hong Kong people, Taiwanese, Mainlanders, Shanghainese, Macau people, Beijingnese, etc they are all CHINESE! The Taiwanese are self-hating because mainland China is making Chinese look bad.

i hates politics, and not here to discuss politics.

vietnam is japan's sibling. because, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, philippines, thailand, east india, burma is the ancient root of 90% japanese people includes japanese emperor.

taiwan is the best friend to japan. taiwan is island, every island nations are unique like britain, ireland, japan, indonesia, newzealand, hawaii, philippines.

taiwan is unique to japan, japan is unique to taiwan. so the attraction. taiwan is chinese ethnics, but culturally unique to chinese continents. people always hates taiwanese being unique and original. why?
also, many cultural exchanges between taiwan and japan, more than 50 years.


vietnam and other south east asian countires are DNA, language, and culture sibling.

Japan is moral?

My reference of 'moral' was aimed at the people of SEA nations like Thailand and the Philippians.

But Yes. Japan is moral. Everyone I know that's Japanese is very moral. We are polite, thoughtful, and follow Buddhist teachings. Do you, Yerroperil, have any Japanese acquaintances or friends to claim Japanese are Immoral?

What does buddha say about porno,and two girls one cup?

beijingnese? lol first time hearing that name...

There is porn all over the world. What does that have to do with anything?
If I recall correctly, China is the second(first within Asia) biggest consumer of J-porn.
Does that reflect Chinese Morality? Chinese Buddhism?

I don't think so.

who's number 1?

nvm

There's way more people in China. So it's worthless to say they are #2.

so if china is number 2 consumer of j-porn, i 'm wondering who's number 1...

No... big no... ITs not because that we are sibling so we care about each other...

we may have something to do in languages and as far as culture... but not the DNA.

We are not genetically related to them... even we don't have anything to do with them, we still see them as or lil'sister and brother... that is the point.

them is south east asian?

i think i understand.
i think japanese understands it, and don't think vietnamese people are all same.
thialand people, and philippines people are all different, and indonesian and malaysian are different.

kyocera have factories in vietnam
more companies move to vietnam


for vietnam, like korea in 1980s.


Hai Phong okays Japan’s printer factory project
The Hai Phong city People’s Committee granted an investment certificate to Japan’s Kyocera Mita Vietnam Technology company to build a factory producing printers and multifunctional photocopiers on July 5.

Construction of the factory is scheduled to start in October this year on an area of 20 hectares in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP Hai Phong) with a total investment of over US$200 million.

Once operational in October, 2012, the factory will have an annual capacity of 150,000 units which will increase to 450,000 in 2016 and generate jobs for 5,000 local workers.

VSIP Hai Phong sits on a site of 1,600 hectares in the Dinh Vu-Cat Hai Economic Zone. Over the past six months, Hai Phong city has attracted 11 newly licensed foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth US$39.6 million. The province now has 304 valid FDI projects with a total capital of over US$4.6 billion. – VOV



Japan firm to build auto spare parts factory in Da Nang

Date: 5/19/2011 9:56:53 PMJapan ’s Tokai Kogyo Group has announced that it plans to build an automobile spare parts factory in the central city of Da Nang.
The site will occupy a 2-5ha area. The project has a total capital investment of about $20 million. The plant will supply parts to leading car makers such as Honda, Toyota , Nissan and General Motors.

Vietnam will be the sixth country chosen by Tokai Kogyo Group to produce auto spare parts.

The Tokai Kogyo project is in keeping with the city’s plans to develop support industries, said Phung Tan Viet, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee.

There are currently 60 Japanese investment projects in the city – accounting for 20 per cent of the city’s total foreign direct investment.

I've noticed a lot more retards in the VN section