Published:  00:00 Tuesday - October 12, 2010

The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Vietnam and the Vietnam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold a Japanese language festival in Hanoi on October 17.

Participants will have a chance to exchange and express their linguistic abilities in the Japanese language. Three competitors will win a trip to Japan in the next two weeks.

First launched in 1997, the annual festival aims to encourage people to learn the Japanese language, study its culture, and strengthen friendship, solidarity and mutual understanding between the governments and peoples of Vietnam and Japan.

In 2009, out of 300 contestants, Nguyen Huu Bao Trung from Hanoi’s University of Science and Technology won first prize.