Sino-Japanese ties worrying

THE PROSPECTS FOR SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS are worrying when 90 percent of the Japanese people surveyed said they have a bad impression of China and 80 percent of the Chinese surveyed said they feel the same way about Japan, according to the latest survey conducted by China Daily in China and the non-profit organization Genron NPO in Japan.

What is even more worrying is that 32.9 percent of the Japanese surveyed believe that ties between the two countries will further deteriorate, while the percentage of Chinese surveyed holding the same view was as high as 62.6 percent. Both are higher than the figures of last year.

The Japanese respondents who believe that military conflict between the two countries will not happen dropped from 46.7 percent last year to 38 percent this year, while 42.2 percent of the Chinese surveyed think that military conflict will take place between the two, higher than the 35.3 percent last year.