Hostile Neighbours: Sino-Japanese Antipathy

According to a survey carried out by Pew Research in China, Japan, Australia and India in 2016 (n = 7.618), stereotypical views of one another are largely negative in China and Japan. The countries see each other as violent, about 8-in-10 Japanese describe the Chinese as arrogant, about 7-in-10 Chinese describe the Japanese that way. Three-quarters of the Japanese (particularly those age 50 and older) believe the Chinese are nationalistic while only 4-in-10 Chinese associate the Japanese with nationalism. Neither country sees the other as honest. Only 11% of Japanese have a favourable view of China and only 14% of Chinese have a favourable opinion of Japan (via).

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