(VOVworld) - Vietnam considers Japan its leading economic partner. President Truong Tan Sang told the President of Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance (JVFPA), Nikai Toshihiro, on Saturday that both countries need to create more favorable conditions to boost Japanese investment in Vietnam. He expected that the Alliance will promote bilateral strategic partnership and cooperation with Vietnam. For his part, the JVFPA President praised Vietnam’s all-round development over the past time, particularly in economics and trade. He said he believed that the two countries’ relations will continue to be consolidated and developed in all fields and pledged all-out efforts to foster bilateral ties.