Close to 90% of people in both Japan and China have unfavorable impressions of each other's countries, a joint opinion poll by Japan's Genron NPO and China International Communications Group showed Monday.
The proportion of Japanese respondents who said they had a negative view of China stood at 89.0%, down 3.2 percentage points from a year before. The share of Chinese respondents with a negative view of Japan rose 24.8 points to 87.7%, the highest since 2013, the year after Tokyo nationalized the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Respondents in both countries gave as the reasons for their views issues linked to the Senkaku chain and Taiwan, as well as the detention of Japanese nationals in China over espionage allegations.
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