Every year a poll is done by “Genron NPO” a Japanese think tank comparing responses between Chinese and Japanese respondents who are asked to answer with their opinion or sentiment towards an ongoing world event. Every year they are also asked about their impressions on each other, and the 2023 poll was not good news.
Respondents to the poll could answer either poor or relatively poor impression or good to relatively good. The 2023 poll had Japan’s second
lowest impression of China at 92.2% respondents answer towards having a poor to relatively poor impression towards China, an increase from last year’s 87.3%. The responses in China towards Japan were similarly low at 62.9% reporting a low impression towards Japan. Along with these, respondents were asked the reasoning of their response, and 40.7% of the Japanese respondents said their response was this low to due to anti-Japanese reporting in China. For China’s low impressions towards Japan, the highest selected reasonings were Japan not supporting the One China principle (37.3%), and Japan’s acceptance of US policies.

Respondents were also asked what potential regions of conflict in East Asia, and the most common response of both the Chinese and Japanese responders was the Taiwan Staite at 27% of Japanese responders, and 32.9% of the Chinese responders, a high decrease from last year’s response of 48.6%.

This poll has shown over the years the increasing tensions between the countries of East Asia. However the scope and population size of this poll were relatively small at about 1000 Japanese Respondents and 1500 Chinese respondents, so how this reflects these populations as a whole is unknown.

Source:
“Japan-China Opinion Poll 2023 Mentions the Possibility of Nuclear War for the First Time.” The Genron NPO, 10 Oct. 2023, www.genron-npo.net/en/opinion_polls/archives/5628.html.