A new poll has shown what many people already know: Most Japanese and Chinese don’t hold a very favorable view of eachother.
Japan and China hold “very negative” opinions of each other, with only 28 percent of the Japanese and 21 percent of the Chinese having positive views, the Pew Research Center said Tuesday in a global survey report.
The Washington-based think tank cited rivalry between the two neighboring Asian nations with “long histories of conflict.”
In the United States, meanwhile, a narrow majority, or 52 percent, of Americans have a favorable opinion of China, up from 43 percent last year, and 66 percent hold a positive view on Japan, up from 63 percent, according to the poll conducted among nearly 17,000 people in 15 countries between March 31 and May 14.
The favorability rating of the United States came to 63 percent in Japan, down from 72 percent in the last available 2002 poll, and 47 percent in China, up from 42 percent last year.
The poll also asked Japanese people about possible threats:
Japanese view North Korea as a more serious threat with 46 percent saying North Korea poses a great danger to regional stability and world peace, while the rating came to 29 percent for both Iran and the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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Found this to be amusing because I hear my chinese students express this same opinion. Unfortunately, they, as others around the world, usually can't distinguish if a person is Chinese or Japanese until they speak. Rarely but on occasion they incorrectly identify their own
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