Vietnamese students will leave for Japan as previously scheduled

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam International Education Development under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has announced that the Vietnamese students who plan to go to Japan to attend training courses under the scholarships granted by the State of Vietnam and MEXT scholarships granted by the Government of Japan, will still be able to leave for Japan in late March and early April 2011 as previously planned.

Plans to bringing students to Japan still ongoing

Photo by Vu Duy Loc, Vietnamese student in Tokyo

MOET has released a notice that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will not affect the plan of Vietnamese students going to Japan to study.

“If Vietnamese students go to the areas which do not suffered from the natural calamity and wish to go studying as planned, and if the Japanese side affirms it can satisfy necessary conditions for Vietnamese students, MOET will soon complete procedures for them to go,” MOET has announced.

In case students plan to go to the natural calamity stricken areas, the Japanese side will suggest the delay in receiving Vietnamese students. Officers of the Vietnam International Education Development will work out with every Vietnamese student on the specific plan for the student.

In case Vietnamese students want to return to Vietnam after considering the difficult conditions in Japan and the consequences of the natural calamity and concluding that the conditions are not good enough to ensure the good learning and living, students should show their aspirations, so that Japanese government agencies, the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and MOET consider and make decisions on every specific case.

MOET has also said that the Vietnamese Embassy in Vietnam, considering the situation, will submit reports to the Government and give suggestions on how to deal with the Vietnamese community in Japan in general and Vietnamese students in Japan in particular.

Vietnamese students in Japan safe

MOET has said that all Vietnamese students in Japan are safe or they have got temporary accommodations at the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, and that they have got the support from the Vietnamese Embassy and Japanese relevant agencies. Some students have spontaneously left Japan.

Right after hearing the news about earthquake and tsunami in Japan, MOET immediately contacted Do Van Trung, First Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, who is in charge of managing Vietnamese students in Japan, to update information.

Regarding the students studying in Japan under the scholarships granted by the Japanese Government (MEXT, JDS), the Vietnam International Education Development has been informed by JICE and Japanese Embassy in Vietnam that Vietnamese students in Japan are all safe, while those students, who are living in temporary accommodations, are getting support from the Japanese side.

Some Vietnamese students said in the last few days, the consequences of the natural calamity have made the life of the students disturbed.

Van Minh, a student in Niigita said these days he mainly watches news about the nuclear crisis in Japan, talks with relatives in Vietnam and contacts friends.

Vu Duy Loc, a student in Tokyo, said he is now in the spring holiday, therefore, he is not busy. He always reads newspapers, talks to relatives and reads documents. “Some changes have come in my life, but there is no big disturbance,” he said.