Vietnam Heart Ambassador is a contest within the framework of the program "Homeland Spring 2025 - Vietnam Heart" in Osaka city, Japan. The contest aims to find faces to be image ambassadors, promoting Vietnamese culture in Japan.
In less than two months since its launch, the Organizing Committee of the contest has received more than 100 applications from Vietnamese candidates living in all regions of Japan.
After the application selection, preliminary and semi-final rounds, 20 candidates were selected for the final ranking round at the closing ceremony of the event "Spring Homeland 2025 - Heart of Vietnam".
In the final ranking round, the contestants performed the ao dai collection of designer Ta Linh Nhan from Ho Chi Minh City. In the behavioral round for the top 5, the girls answered a general question sharing their love for their homeland and their feelings when attending a major cultural event for overseas Vietnamese during Tet.
With a gentle and beautiful face, a graceful figure, good stage performance ability and especially a convincing performance, contestant Vu Thi Diu won the championship of the contest. The Ambassador of Vietnam's Heart was born in 2000, from Nam Dinh, currently living and working in Osaka.
The first runner-up of the contest was contestant Le Thi Hong Trang, born in 1996, from Tuyen Quang, currently living in Tokyo, manager of a Vietnamese art center in Japan.
Second runner-up is Hoang Thi Huyen Trang, born in 1997 in Nghe An, currently living and working in Osaka.
"Homeland Spring 2025 - Vietnam's Heart" is the largest Tet cultural exchange event ever for the Vietnamese community in Japan, recently held at Naniwa no Miya ato Park (Osaka City), attracting up to 200,000 participants. The program is accompanied by the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka and prestigious organizations and associations of Vietnamese people in Japan.
With the direction of General Director Huy Lio, the guidance of MC Bui Phuc Anh and MC Aki Thu and the participation of artists from Vietnam and Japan, the program brought many emotions to the Vietnamese community in Japan through fun and entertainment activities such as music performances, street art performances, folk games, singing contests, Ao Dai performances...
In particular, on the closing day of the program, with the final round of the Vietnam Heart Ambassador contest and the appearance of singer Quang Hung MasterD, in the vast space of Naniwa no Miya ato park, the audience pouring in to participate created an image of a sea of adults never seen before in any event of Vietnamese people in Japan.
