China's View of Japan Improves, Though the Feeling's Not Mutual
- Poll shows Japanese still have negative impression of China
- Chinese continue to see Japan as their biggest military threat
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Efforts by leaders to heal the rift between China and Japan over history are working, although improvement in how the countries’ citizens view each other is largely one-sided.
An opinion poll of Asia’s two largest economies published by Genron NPO on Thursday showed about 42 percent of Chinese respondents had a positive image of Japan, up from 5.2 percent in 2013. By contrast, 13 percent of Japanese said they had a positive view of China, compared with a low of 6.8 percent in 2014.