Viet Nam has the second largest number of students in Japan, according to the latest statistics from the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).

Viet Nam has the second largest number of students in Japan, according
to the latest statistics from the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).

As of May 2021, the number of Vietnamese students studying in Japan stood at 62,233, a year-on-year decrease of 15.2 percent.

Regarding labor exports to Japan, in the first three months of 2021, about 18,000 Vietnamese workers were sent to Japan, based on the data from the Viet Nam Association of Manpower Supply.

Viet Nam is the biggest supplier of technical interns in Japan. Currently, around 200,000 Vietnamese live and work there as technical interns in a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, construction and manufacturing, the Nikkei Asia said in an article. 

But even during pandemic-hit 2020 when the number of Vietnamese migrant workers halved to around 38,000, Japan still had the highest figure in the region.