Near 90% of individuals in each Japan and China have unfavorable impressions of one another’s nations, a joint opinion ballot by Japan’s Genron NPO and China Worldwide Communications Group confirmed Monday.
The proportion of Japanese respondents who stated that they had a damaging view of China stood at 89.0%, down 3.2 share factors from a yr earlier than. The share of Chinese language respondents with a damaging view of Japan rose 24.8 factors to 87.7%, the very best since 2013, the yr after Tokyo nationalized the Senkaku Islands within the East China Sea.
Respondents in each nations gave as the explanations for his or her views points linked to the Senkaku chain and Taiwan, in addition to the detention of Japanese nationals in China over espionage allegations.