(VOV) – Vietnamese ambassador to Japan Doan Xuan Hung attended the inauguration ceremony of a Vietnamese school for Vietnamese children in Tokyo on February 2.
The school started a new school year on January 18, with one class for pre-school children and two classes for primary school children.
It is designed to not only teach Vietnamese language but organise extracurricular activities during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, Mid-Autumn Festival (the eighth full-moon month), and Vietnam Teachers’ Day to educate children about traditional culture.
Ambassador Hung acknowledged relevant parties’ efforts in building the school and expressed his hope the model will be replicated across Japan in the near future.
Do Van Trung, Educational Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy, stressed the school will help preserve Vietnamese identity and language for Vietnamese generations in Japan.
He revealed the model will be multiplied in Japan after the test run.
Japanese Ministry of Justice statistics show the number of Vietnamese residents in Japan exceeded 60,000 in 2013, an increase of 30% compared to 2012.
Đăng ký: VietNam News