Accordingly, the teaching of Japanese will be piloted in three primary schools in Hanoi as from the 2016-2017 school year . The two sides will base on teaching results to expand Japanese classes to schools in other provinces and cities.
Japanese will be considered the first foreign language for students from thirdgrade within the framework of Vietnam’s National Foreign Languages Project 2020.
The Embassy said that Vietnam is the first Southeast Asian country to pilot the project.
Currently, there are 46,000 students in Vietnam learning Japanese.