In a joint opinion poll conducted in Japan and China, it was found that the percentage of people who answered that their impression of Japan was "not good" turned worse in China for the first time in eight years. We analyze that the background may be that the opportunities for people to interact with each other have decreased due to the spread of coronavirus infection.
This poll was jointly conducted by the Japanese private organization "Ganjo NPO" and the Chinese "China International Publishing Group", and was conducted in both Japan and China from August to last month, with a total of 2547 people. I answered.
According to this, the number of people who answered "I have a bad impression" or "I have a rather bad impression" about the impression of the partner country increased by 13.2 points from last year to 66.1% in China. I did.
China's impression of Japan began to worsen for the first time in eight years since the 2013 survey, the year after the Japanese government nationalized the Senkaku Islands.
On the other hand, in Japan, 90.9% of the respondents who answered "not good" or "somewhat bad" remained high compared to last year.
Regarding the current Sino-Japanese relations, the percentage of those who answered "bad" or "somewhat bad" was 42.6% in China, which deteriorated for the first time in 5 years, and 54.6% in Japan, which was almost the same as last year. ..
The surveyed "Genron NPO" commented on the background of China's worsening public opinion toward Japan. It may have been affected by the fact that the number of Chinese visiting Japan has decreased significantly. "