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Over 40% of Chinese have positive impression of Japan: survey

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I can’t wait to see the results of the Japanese survey about China. I’m sure those results will be very different.

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@Do th hustle, actually, it's in the article: "But 86.3 percent of Japanese respondents hold an unfavorable impression of China, little changed in recent year"

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It’s America’s turn to be the latest enemy. They get to rotate shifts. Public opinion in China changes at the turn of a button, literally. It’s gunna be easier and easier once the social credits system is put into full swing.

Dont worry Japan , you’ll be back on the radar all in good time. Not like your going anywhere in the meantime. With a figure like 86 percent still disliking China it’s almost a certainty.

Scores will be settled , one way or the other. It’s what collectivist cultures inevitably do.

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40% like Japan! Nice spin but it means 60% do not.

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Bad image of Japan was infused into their people as their propaganda. Seemingly successful one party ruling is now facing serious problems as people are opening their eyes to the world.

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Got no problem with the Chinese.... as long as the learn some proper manners. Well.... maybe they might become a bit more honest and actually treat people as potential friends a bit more than a stepping stone for advancement. You know..... it would also be good if they thought a bit less in a "mob mentality" style. And while we're at it.... maybe they might take their game up a notch when it comes to overall domestic construction. The quality of Chinese construction in most of China is just garbage. But really.... they're good honest hard working people that only want to cut a few corners on their way to becoming rich very quickly. Do you think they're just a bit different form the Japanese?

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from experience you never trust any statistics coming from china

how convinient now that their sweating the trade war and now they want to be nice to japan

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But 86.3 percent of Japanese respondents hold an unfavorable impression of China, little changed in recent years.

Probably just jealous of China's recent rise.

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Be careful when China smiles.

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40% likes Japan pretty much translates to 60% hates Japan. Also, I am wary of these kinds of numbers coming from China as that their new objective is to befriend Japan into opposing the USA but if Japan does come around to help China, wouldn't Japan be under attack from Trump's leadership? If the USA calls their troops in Okinawa to retreat, it will leave Japan open to hostilities in the region. China will show their true face and together with North Korea, Japan will become vulnerable. Diversion tactic and also the main tactic which is to cause friction between Japan and the USA so that the two countries will hate each other and breakup; once breakup, China will step in and try to crush Japan first followed by the USA as a next target. Never trust commies!! Democratic countries even if in full disagreement with another country, they are never gonna attack them because that would be unjust and wrong whereas communists see "an opening" and they strike immediately. Difference right there!

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More than 70% of Chinese who visited Japan had a positive impression of Japan.

Uh....that's called self-selection. A Chinese person who had a bad impression of Japan probably wouldn't visit Japan in the first place. A better question would have been 'of those who had a unfavorable impression of Japan PRIOR to visiting Japan left with a favorable impression of Japan.'

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But 86.3 percent of Japanese respondents hold an unfavorable impression of China

That is ludicrously high and should be the main focus of this piece. I'd wager Palestinians & Israelis have only slightly higher negative views of each other, if that makes sense. And I fear it might get higher as China continues to dominate the region and Japan's tourist market.

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When it's Chinese, is it Cantonese from HK (Most of them like Japan) or Mandarin/Putungua from China (1 in 1000 like Japan)

But it says Most Japanese do not have good impression on China. That's normal but the thing is it's Not Chinese who is liking Japan recently, it's most of South Korean who are disliking Japan these days.

(Just look at how many movies, documentaries, dramas they have made about comfort women recently)

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It would be interesting to have a breakdown by ethnicity. "Chinese" citizens are not necessarily Han Chinese. There are scores of ethnic minorities in China who are not Han Chinese. It would be interesting to know what the million or so Uighurs in Chinese "re-education" camps think about the Japanese (and the Han Chinese). So too for the Tibetans.

I've had Mongolian students in my classes. Not a lot of love for the Han Chinese.

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Not like your going anywhere in the meantime.

Only a few more millimeters further away from China.

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But really.... they're good honest hard working people that only want to cut a few corners on their way to becoming rich very quickly.

I think we can find good and bad in all peoples. But while they have economically boomed relatively quickly, I think they have suffered through a lot that Japan didn't have to suffer through (in comparison). With that in mind, I wouldn't say that they have become rich quickly (I know this is taking your words out of context but I'm using this to segue). China has suffered through more than most of us from western countries can imagine, and it's mainly because of the greed of the first world that they are now becoming more wealthy (at least some of them).

Companies have been outsourcing their manufacturing to China for pennies on the dime for decades. The world likes to think it is a greener place, with greener technologies - true to a point. But this is all at the cost of massive amounts of pollution and financial hardship (poverty/slave labor) in China. In this way, I respect the grit of the Chinese (although there is a lot I don't like about their ways) and I think they deserve some success.

Hopefully they don't militarize too much as they gain power because I'm sure they have some unresolved vendettas toward a certain neighbor. Perhaps more efforts should have been made to smooth things over while the chance was there... (it still is).

We all sleep in the bed that we make...

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If that is true, why do they always talk to me and my friends about WW2 and Nanking all the time and in a loud voice! Or spitting in the streets, as evident in Ginza.

When I went to China on business, the constant showing of Chinese movies of Anti Japanese war themed movies, constantly playing..

If Chinese hate Japan so much, please don't buy our products then..

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If that is true, why do they always talk to me and my friends about WW2 and Nanking all the time and in a loud voice! Or spitting in the streets, as evident in Ginza.

I often walk around piles of spit at kombini.

When I went to China on business, the constant showing of Chinese movies of Anti Japanese war themed movies, constantly playing..

Because Japan has never properly atoned for their brutal wartime acts in China and elsewhere.

If Chinese hate Japan so much, please don't buy our products then..

You do realize how many things on the shelf of Japanese shops are "Made in China", right? Surely.

I sense a lot of hatred in your post...

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Actually Japan did compensate a lot of money to Korea and China in the 1960s

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If that is true, why do they always talk to me and my friends about WW2 and Nanking all the time and in a loud voice!

Always? Really?

Just as an aside, one of the only times I’ve come close to a fight in Japan was with a drunken Japanese bigot saying disgusting things about Chinese people after I told him I spent time on business in China.

I met a variety of people in China. Some good some bad.

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