China’s efforts to intimidate Japan into submission have seen such trust of China as there is amongst the Japanese collapse, with as many as 90% of Japanese surveyed saying China cannot be trusted.
The latest surveys of public opinion indicate China’s recent efforts to seize the Senkaku Islands have had the unsurprising effect of substantially hardening public opinion against China – 87% of Japanese men in their twenties now agree “China cannot be trusted,” up from 80%.
Women are just as suspicious of Chinese intentions – 91.8% of women in their forties, the highest, also feel China cannot be trusted, and even amongst women in their twenties 84% agree.
The results also indicate Japanese are becoming concerned by their weakness, especially the younger generations – as many as 94.2% of Japanese men in their twenties now agree that “Japan’s image as a being a nation that will succumb to pressure is a concern.”
Amongst Japanese, concern about China’s aggression also appears to be crystallising into concern about the current pro-Chinese stance of their own government.
The latest incident, in which senior government figures made the highly suspect blunder of referring to the presence of Chinese ships in the area with the honorifics usually reserved for dignitaries, convinced many that the Democratic party’s worshipful attitude to China is incorrigible – now over 90% of men in their thirties agree that the government’s foreign policy is “spineless.”
Across all the generations, the incident has caused many to think their “alliance” with the USA must be strengthened; 39.1% think the alliance should be strengthened, whilst 41.9% consider the status quo adequate. Most support is concentrated amongst younger generations of men – 48.9% and 46.4% of men in their thirties and twenties want a stronger alliance.
Younger generations were particularly likely to admit the importance of relations with China – 95.7% of men in their twenties and 92% of women in their thirties agreed China “is important to Japan’s economy,” displaying a surprising amount of awareness of just who their largest trading partner is.
Where the regions are concerned, the most concerned were the inhabitants of Kyushu, closest to China and the Senkaku Islands. 51.3% agreed that “troops should be stationed on the Senkaku Islands,” higher than anywhere else. 76.1% agreed that “China is a nation which threatens the safety of Japan” and 81.4% that “the issue will continue to poison relations between China and Japan.”
With public opinion now firmly against China, it seems the only thing sustaining Japan’s supine position with regards to China is the Democratic Party of Japan’s substantial Sinophile wing and the short-sighted desperation of the extremely powerful Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) to protect their Chinese investments – one of the few Japanese organisations left which unreservedly supports the appeasement of China.
China is nothing but a self destructing parasite. It feeds of his own people and sucks them off until they die. Think about how they will treat you after seeing how they treat their own people. And Americans should shut up. Your as spineless as the Japanese. You only start war against countries with nothing more then some wooden sticks and kill 10 times more children and women as terrorists or enemy soldiers. China should fight America. If we are lucky both die a painfull death and the rest of the world lives a peacefull life.
I can think of a solution to Japan’s lack of balls: Japan should be allowed to have an army again! After WWII, Japan is forbidden to have a standing army or wage war with other nations according to Article 9 of its constitution. It has the Jieitai, which is one of the world’s most technologically advanced armed forces, but it’s more for non-combat missions.
If Japan is allowed to fight back, then it can put its foot down.
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If you want to comment on the issue, look up the history of the island first.
The island ORIGINALLY belonged to China, Japan, like the rest of the exploitive nations of that age. Started the first sino-japanese war and won the island. Then after world war II they were supposed to return the island, but pussied out and America being their victor backed them up.
Now Japan has arrested the fisherman for NO reason as it is disputed sea and arresting another countries citizen there is as good as kidnapping.
I dont know what garbage your media has fed you but if you think about it logically, this entire incident was started by Japan in an effort to seize territory that was never hers to begin with.
You are treating people and country as one and the same. People who generalize like you can be perceived as racist because you generalize about the will of the Japanese people and government. Also, you base your accusations on past generations of Japanese. It’s like basing all of Americans on the overweight ones or on the civil war or on the racism that this country has suffered. You are an idiot because you generalize. However, the Japanese government is generalizing about the Chinese government and vice versa. All governments do that! Attacking the people in general is idiotic and racist. I am not one to throw around the word racist often so I’m very serious.
AHEM AHEM AHEM i want u all 2 look at this 1st and think if war is really a good idea e.e
5 larget armys of 2010
5th place Russia-not exactly democratic
4th NORHT KOREA- communist
3rd india-very quiet there o-o
2nd USA-thats right v.v i was surprised 2
1st CHINA-this is scary
countrys with known nukes
china,usa,Nkorea,russia
countrys looking for war
china Nkorea
allies of china
north korea sum of africa iran russia
China and North Korea vs Japan, South Korea, United States, EU, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, Israel and many others that aren’t on the top of my head right now.
You really wanna put your money on China?
Japan and the United States are sisters. The United States leads NATO, and has numerous other powerful alliances as well. If China were to attack Japan, the chain of alliances would bring nearly the entire military force of the world down on Chinas head. It’s just not going to happen. They can’t be that stupid.
Largest does not equal best. Massive numbers of poorly equipped ground forces don’t do much in today’s world. But you are right in that it isn’t likely that ANY known nuclear powers will engage any of their peers in a full-scale war, at least until some sort of real missile countermeasure is deployed (something that, at least in terms of anti-ICBM usage, is likely at least another 15 years away, if not far more).
counter measure = how will you launch anything without satellites? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test