By This is what this AP commissioned poll tried to find out:
Japanese people have mixed emotions about South Korea, according to a survey by pollster GfK for AP. GfK polled 1,000 adults in Japan between July 29 to Aug. 10 and found that 31 percent liked South Korea, putting the country third among seven countries that were compared after the U.S. and Germany. The others were Israel, China, Russia and North Korea.
But 27 percent of the respondents disliked South Korea. The popularity of Korean TV dramas and K-Pop increased, AP speculated, but it looks like the country as a whole “isn’t so popular itself.”
Japanese felt hostile toward North Korea and China, according to the survey. A total of 94 percent of respondents said they do not like North Korea, while 76 percent voiced aversion to China. Russia and Israel were next with 44 percent of the respondents saying they did not like them. When asked if they think China threatens global peace, 73 percent of the respondents said yes. Eighty percent felt the same way about North Korea. [Chosun Ilbo]
6:07 pm on September 13th, 2011 1
Intelligent views on China by the Japanese it seems. I wonder how that stacks up globally? The Israel number is a bit surprising and shows some iconoclasm in Japanese thought. If they were following a US line that number would not be there and I doubt the China negatives are as high in the US as well.