Hanoi, April 19 -- Tokyo (VNA) - As Vietnamese community in Japan is growing, preserving the Vietnamese language among younger generations has become a pressing concern for families, community groups, and representative agencies.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka, in coordination with the Global Network for Teaching Vietnamese Language and Culture, co-hosted the event "Vietnamese Language in the heart of Kyushu, Japan" in Fukuoka city on April 18.

Participants observed that while the number of Vietnamese-origin children in Japan is surging, opportunities to actually speak Vietnamese in daily life are vanishing fast. Many children can understand the language but default to Japanese in response, gradually relegating their mother...