My impressions of Vietnamese people and housing (1)

My impressions of Vietnamese people and housing (1)
It has been two weeks since I returned to Japan. It has been a hectic two weeks, but my memories of Vietnam have not faded.
I've put together a summary of what I felt there. Since it's getting long, I'm going to upload it in three parts.
I went to Vietnam from May 9th to 12th, spending two nights in Vietnam and one night on the plane. The tour was accompanied by six people in total, including the president of Hauseco, Dean Iwasaki of Kinki University, Professor Emeritus Hirozo Ishikawa, an authority on durability, and two others.
The purpose of this visit was to observe a local person interviewing a Japanese company, and to see an ordinary house where a local person lives. As with any country, if you go to a packaged tour organized by a travel agency, you will go to the usual tourist spots, go to a souvenir shop, and that will be the end of it.
However, if you have a local person accompanying you, you can get a glimpse of the real people, their homes, and their lives. This is the fun and excitement of traveling, and I always feel this way when I go abroad.
This time, the Narita group and the Kansai group started separately. However, from the start, the Kanto group encountered trouble... They flew with Vietnam Airlines, but the moment they arrived, it was discovered that none of their luggage had arrived! And the reason for this was the ridiculous fact that all of their luggage had been forgotten to be loaded at Narita... I and my associates have had luggage trouble twice in the past two years, one in France and the other in the Philippines. I never imagined that such a big blunder would occur at Narita. However, it was a blessing in disguise as it arrived safely that evening. First of all, the trouble delayed us at the airport for about two hours.
From there, we moved to Hanoi and immediately attended an interview scene at a certain company. Currently, the average monthly income in rural Vietnam is 10000 yen. If they come to Japan, they can earn about XNUMX yen a month. That's a XNUMX-fold increase in annual income. I was shown a group interview with about XNUMX people, and it was a life-or-death situation. I was touched by the way they tried their best to speak in their poor Japanese.
The next day, I visited three ordinary houses in the suburbs of Hanoi. First of all, it is common knowledge in Vietnam that in northern Hanoi, houses are made of reinforced concrete, and there are almost no wooden houses. Wooden houses equal termites and shacks that are damaged by typhoons... I felt that this image was deeply ingrained. However, although Vietnam is located much further south than Japan, it seems that typhoons do not hit the entire country, and only the coastal areas are affected. Even if they do, they are not as strong as those in the Philippines. As for termites, they are characterized by the fact that they are mostly warm or hot, so once they start to attack, they are destroyed in an instant. This is the same in Japan, and the same reason why Kagoshima and Miyazaki are sensitive to termites.