At the event (Photo: VNA) This event, themed “Transformation: new values – new methods", was organized in order to gather ideas of the Vietnamese intellectual community in Japan and other countries around the world to create breakthrough development for the country in the post-COVID-19 period. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the summit, Mr. Trinh Thanh Luan, a member of the Board of the Vietnam Summit in Japan, said that the 2nd Vietnam Summit in Japan took place in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic causing a lot of challenges for all countries all over the world. This pandemic has caused many lost links and values, and many methods are no longer effective. However, the pandemic has opened up many new values and new methods. Capturing and taking advantage of these factors for timely transformation is an urgent need for each individual in particular and for the whole country in general. According to him, the organizing board hopes that the forum will be a place for everyone to participate in discussions and find solutions to the problems of each individual, each business and the whole country in the "new normal" period. The summit will include 8 discussions focusing on issues such as how to live with the COVID-19 pandemic in the new normal situation, online learning, digital transformation, smart city development and agricultural economy development for the Mekong Delta. At the opening ceremony, the Vietnamese Academic Network in Japan (VANJ) announced the Collection of Japanese Science and Technology 2021, which selected 35 articles by Vietnamese and Japanese scientists and experts and foreigners, who have been working and studying in Japan in many different fields, from basic science, materials, electronics and robotics to application fields such as energy, agriculture, construction, biomedical and policy. The content of the articles focuses on Japan’s strong fields and technologies that can help solve existing problems in Vietnam. The Vietnam Summit in Japan held in November 2019 attracted nearly 900 Vietnamese intellectuals inside and outside Japan, along with representatives of a number of ministries and branches of the Government of Vietnam. In an interview with a VNA reporter, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Vu Hong Nam said that he highly appreciates the theme of this summit, which meets the development trends of the world in general and Vietnam in particular in the post-COVID-19 period. According to statistics of Japan’s Ministry of Justice, as of early 2021, there are about 448,053 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in this country, of which more than 50% are intellectuals, who are students, scientists and professionals in many fields./.