Near 90% of individuals in each Japan and China have unfavorable impressions of one another’s international locations, 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 destructive 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 destructive view of Japan rose 24.8 factors to 87.7%, the best since 2013, the yr after Tokyo nationalized the Senkaku Islands within the East China Sea.
Respondents in each international locations 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.
The proportion of Chinese language individuals who stated Japan-China relations weren’t necessary jumped 40.5 factors to 59.6%, whereas the share of people that view the ties as necessary shrank 33.8 factors to 26.3%.
Social media platforms resembling Weibo and Douyin, the Chinese language model of TikTok, which are likely to host radical anti-Japanese rhetoric, ranked excessive amongst respondents’ sources of details about Japan. Individuals’s sentiment towards Japan is believed to be impacted by their use of such websites, in addition to whether or not they have visited Japan.
The survey confirmed that 67.1% of Japanese respondents stated bilateral ties had been necessary, up barely.
On points hindering the event of Japan-China relations, with a number of solutions allowed, 35.5% of Chinese language respondents cited Japan’s launch into the ocean of handled water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear energy plant. The determine jumped from solely 5.8% across the time when the discharge began in August final yr.
In Japan, 50.6% gave the Senkaku situation as an element inhibiting rosier ties with China.
The survey lined individuals aged 18 or older in Japan and China between mid-October and early November. Legitimate responses had been acquired from 2,500 individuals.
