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Report: China’s Feelings Towards Japan Take a Sharp Nosedive
One annual survey shows a nearly 25-point spike in negative feelings in China towards Japan.
It’s been a bad year for China-Japan relations. That’s reflected in a new report that says Chinese sentiments towards Japan have taken a huge dip.
The report from Japan’s Genron NPO and China International Denpa surveyed people in both countries on how they felt about the other nation. The survey included 10,000 people across Japan and around 1,500 people from 10 cities in China.
Attitudes towards China from Japan remained relatively sour. About 10.6% hold a favorable impression of China, with 89% holding an unfavorable impression. And those numbers are an improvement! The unfavorability score fell by 3.2 points. For the past decade, it’s hovered steadily in the high 80s.
By contrast, negative impressions from Chinese people towards Japan had softened in recent years, hovering in the low 60s. That’s changed this year, however, as Japan’s unfavorability rating in the eyes of China spiked by 24.8 points to 87.7%. The spike marks a 20-year low in relations between the two countries.
