In response to a request from the Organization and Personnel Department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, GRIPS conducted a nine-day training program for vice-minister level officials of the Vietnamese government from October 3 to October 11, 2013. GRIPS welcomed 17 vice-minister level officials selected by the Monitoring Office of Program 165.

During the program, participants attended lectures given by the program director, Senior Prof. Masahiro Horie (Director of Executive Development Center for Global Leadership) as well as lectures given by GRIPS faculty members including President Takashi Shiraishi and Prof. Tetsushi Sonobe. In addition, lectures and seminars were given by Mr. Youichi Sugimoto (Executive Officer of SECOM Co., Ltd.) and Prof. Tran Van Tho (Waseda University). The participants learned about a wide range of subjects related to leadership and management, including the strategic relationship between Japan-Vietnam, modernization and development strategy, government and public administration, governance structure, management of administrative organization, civil service system, role of executives, and leadership.

In Tokyo, participants had an opportunity to visit the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. They visited Minister Yoshitaka Shindo and Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, after which they visited the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party and had a meeting with MP Shintaro Ito of the House of Representatives and other working members of the International Affairs Committee. They visited the Keidanren and had a dialogue with members of the Keidanren Committee. Finally, they visited MP Tetsushi Sakamoto, a former vice minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.

The delegation also took a field trip to Miyagi Prefecture. They visited the vice governor of Miyagi Prefecture and the mayor of Sendai City. They had a briefing on the Great East Japan Earthquake and measures taken at the time of and after the earthquake. They also heard measures to reconstruct earthquake-stricken areas in Sendai City. In addition, they visited areas seriously affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

On the final day of the training program, they had a wrap-up session presided over by Prof. Horie. At the completion ceremony, each participant received a certificate of completion of the course.