Vietnamese resident numbers increase as economic reliance on Tokyo wanes back home Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, left, shakes hands with Vietnamese Communist Party chief To Lam in Hanoi on May 2.
Vietnamese resident numbers increase as economic reliance on Tokyo wanes back home Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, left, shakes hands with Vietnamese Communist Party chief To Lam in Hanoi on May 2. Lam's visit to Tokyo from Nov. 8 comes as the decades-old Japan-Vietnam relationship undergoes a shift in trade, investment, aid and people-to-people ties. © AP TOKYO -- Vietnam's Communist Party chief To Lam arrived in Japan on Sunday against the backdrop of a bilateral relationship that looks very different from the one built over previous decades.