Hue, Sept. 6 -- Politburo member and Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung on September 6 received Governor of Nara prefecture Yamashita Makoto, who was in Hue city for the second Vietnam-Japan Local Cooperation Forum. Trung affirmed that locality-to-locality cooperation is an effective channel for implementing commitments and agreements reached by the two countries' high-ranking leaders, while strengthening connectivity and people-to-people exchanges between Vietnam and Japan. Appreciating the positive cooperation between Nara and Vietnamese localities, he proposed that Nara continue encouraging businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises, to expand investment and business activities in Vietnam; step up technology tr...