HCMC – Some 50 Japanese experts were sent by Japan Overseas Development Corporation to Vietnam last month to help with human resource development and technology transfer in the country, said the company’s president at a function here on Tuesday.

Toshinori Kanno said that the Japanese experts sent to Vietnam were among nearly 300 experts dispatched to developing countries under a human resource development program known as Human Resources Program - Getting to Know Japan.

“Over the years, our enterprise has sent over 6,500 experts to more than 50 developing countries,” Toshinori Kanno told the closing ceremony of the program held at the HCMC University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology, or Huflit.

The program is designed to help developing countries upgrade product quality, modernize manufacturing equipment, share management experience, develop human resources, boost the supporting industry and protect the environment.

The program is a three month course organized and sponsored by the corporation in collaboration with other Japanese companies that was opened at the end of last year. The course provided Japanese language training and cultural knowledge for over 300 students of Huflit and Hong Bang University in HCMC, and two other universities in Hanoi.

The course is endorsed by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and will be expanded upon assessment of the first phase.

“We will judge the first phase of this program before developing it,” Kanno said.

Over the years, the Japanese business Association of HCMC and Japan Federation of Economic Organizations have donated many scholarships to students of the city’s universities.