Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science 2015 in Japan was organized by Prof. Yamaguchi Ryoji, University of Miyazaki

Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (SAKURA Exchange Program in Science) is the program for enhancing exchanges between Asia and Japan of the youths who will play a crucial role in the future field of science and technology through the close collaboration of industry-academia-government by facilitating short-term visits of competent Asian youths to Japan. This program aims at raising the interest of Asian youths toward the leading Japanese science and technologies at Japanese universities, research institutions and private companies. Based on the MOU between the University of Miyazaki (UOM) and Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) in research and training in agricultural fields, the SAKURA Exchange Program in Science 2015 was organized for the young staffs and students from VNUA at UOM under the leading of Prof. Yamaguchi Ryoji, who honorably received the campaign medal for the cause of agriculture and rural development of Vietnam in 2014. Ten representative lecturers, researchers and students from Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) attended this Program from 25 September to 4 October 2015.Under the Program, participants took part in various activities such as visiting Meguro Parasitological Museum, the National Museum of Science and Innovation, attending the Orientation Program at the Center for International Relations, doing practices at Labs of X-Ray Optics, Microbiology, Epidemiology, and Pathology, visiting the Veterinary Hospital and the Center for Animal Disease Control (CADIC) of the UOM.Particularly, on this occasion Vietnam and Japan joint Symposium of Infections Diseases Control for Livestock  was co-organized by  the UOM, Miyazaki Prefecture, and VNUA. Attending the Symposium was Prof. Toshiaki Itami, Vice President (UOM), Dr. Masahito Suiko, Executive Director (UOM), Prof. Yamaguchi Ryoji, Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, (UOM), Mr. Hiroyuki Miura, Deputy Director of Livestock Disease Prevention Division, and Mr. Shigehisa Sakoh, Director of Business Management Division. In addition, the Symposium was very honored to receive the attendance of 11 representative leaders and senior officials from the Ministry of Development and Rural Development, Vietnam who were attending their training course on capacity building and human resources management at the UOM and other institutions in Japan.The Symposium shed a light on emerging infectious diseases and their economic damages in Japan and Vietnam such as foot and mouth disease. The Symposium also provided the participants with better understanding on cultural characteristics of the two countries through a brief introduction about Japan and Vietnam.