The Japanese-invested Foster Electric Co. Ltd in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park in Bac Ninh province (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Despite a raft of difficulties plaguing 2020, nearly 47 percent of Japanese businesses investing in Vietnam said they will expand operations in the next one or two years, the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) said on February 8. Unveiling the results of a survey of Japanese enterprises investing abroad in financial year 2020, from April 2020 to March 2021, JETRO noted that among the more than 900 in Vietnam that took part in the survey, over 400 expressed an intention of expanding functions such as normal and high added-value goods production, logistics, and research.