Record high 28% regard Japan-U.S. relations as not good: survey

Monday 08th December, 02:15 AM JST

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SuperLib at 07:10 PM JST - 7th December

99.99% of Japanese people don't even know what a "map" is.
Sarge at 09:42 PM JST - 7th December

kenji - "99.99% of people in the U.S.don't even know where Japan is on the map"

Where'd you get that bogus figure?
JusticePunk at 06:30 AM JST - 8th December

Everybody hates everybody. Americans hate fellow Americans. Japanese hates other Japanese. Candadians/Canadians, and so on and so forth with mixed races whatever, you get the point. Stop hating a whole group and just hate/love an individual you met based on who they are, not "what" they are.

Star Trek nemesis. "Genetics makes us what we are, experiences makes us who we are".

Everybody should watch more star trek...
proxy at 08:42 AM JST - 8th December

Note that the survey was taken in October before the US election. There seems to have been an increase in America's image world wide since Nov. 4. If the survey was taken today, the results might be a bit different.
noborito at 09:07 AM JST - 8th December

Wonder who really cares in America about this. Wonder how the rest of the world feel about Japan? Now that would be an interesting survey to take.
OssanAmerica at 10:04 AM JST - 8th December

That's not so bad. 82% of American don't know that Japan and China are two different countries. At least those 28% must know where America is.
OssanAmerica at 10:06 AM JST - 8th December

99.99% of Japanese people don't even know what a "map" is.

That's actually hogwash. The Japanese are one of the most perpetually and uneccessarily internationally concious people on the planet. Americans on the other hand don't know anything outside of US borders. And that usually incldes Canada.
soldave at 11:02 AM JST - 8th December

OssanAmerica - source? I assume you are quoting an official source saying that 82% of Ameerican (sic) don't know that Japan and China are 2 different countries. Coule you please let us know your source.
noborito at 11:08 AM JST - 8th December

OssanAmerica Might have been true years and years ago, however now the "FREE" educational system in America is world class, in alot of places. And let's look at Universities etc. Would you rank any Japanese university in the same category at anything in the west?

Yes there are some problems but let's look at Japan for a second. This place is supposed to be good at Math. Went to the store yesterday and gave the woman a 1000 yen. The total was 911. After she typed it in, I didn't want all that change so I searched my pockets for a 11 yen. I gave it to her. She needed to find a calculator to figure out that I wanted a 100 yen coin.

Back on point. Japanese like treating the rest of the world like second class citizens. When the rest of the world treats them like that, then they get angry. Time to be nice to people to have people be nice to you.

and OssanAmerica America is a leading power in the world. Frankly other than small electronic parts and money, Japan isn't. The need to know anything about Japan, from the American point of view to be honest, isn't needed. America can take care of America. We can grow enough food, we can produce enough products. Japan on the other hand needs the rest of the world to survive.

Relationships are not equal unless you bring equal things to the table. Money isn't everything. Perhaps Japan should spend more time being friendly with the rest of the world and less on answering questions for surveys that show the rest of the world "real Japan." an unwelcoming country for so many people.
fatloser at 11:18 AM JST - 8th December

This will CHANGE when OBAMA takes office next month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MASSWIPE at 12:20 PM JST - 8th December

You can chalk this one up to Bush's flip-flop on North Korea. Just two and a half years ago, Japanese officials were openly bragging about how their country was the only one in Asia that the US could really trust, thinking this somehow reflected badly on other Asian countries and South Korea in particular (it didn't; it reflected badly on the US).

It's never a good idea to think that your country is special and somehow deserving of special treatment. The growing conflagration in Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon consume the US foreign policy establishment to the exclusion of virtually everything else. So the Japanese shouldn't hold their breath waiting for their "protector" to do something about their kidnapped fellow citizens in North Korea.

Could this be the crisis that ends Tokyo's Faustian bargain with Washington?
OssanAmerica at 01:00 PM JST - 8th December

OssanAmerica - source? I assume you are quoting an official source >saying that 82% of Ameerican (sic) don't know that Japan and China are 2 >different countries. Coule you please let us know your source.

LOL. How about being an American living in the US for over 50 years? If you doubt me just come over here and see for yourself. Why do you think we group them all under "asian"?
OssanAmerica at 01:15 PM JST - 8th December

OssanAmerica Might have been true years and years ago, however now >the "FREE" educational system in America is world class, in alot of >places. And let's look at Universities etc. Would you rank any Japanese >university in the same category at anything in the west?

Never went to university in Japan so I have no basis for] comparison.

Yes there are some problems but let's look at Japan for a second. This >place is supposed to be good at Math. Went to the store yesterday and >gave the woman a 1000 yen. The total was 911. After she typed it in, I >didn't want all that change so I searched my pockets for a 11 yen. I >gave it to her. She needed to find a calculator to figure out that I >wanted a 100 yen coin.

Asian Americans are stereotyped here as being good at math.

Back on point. Japanese like treating the rest of the world like second >class citizens. When the rest of the world treats them like that, then >they get angry. Time to be nice to people to have people be nice to you.

Really? The Japanese had their equivalent of the Oriental Exclusion Laws in immigration like we did? When the Japanese demanded racial equality at the League of Nations we didn't laugh them off? How a country where most of it;speople are in the island country itself are able to treat the rest of the world as "second class citizens" is really puzzling.

and OssanAmerica America is a leading power in the world. Frankly other >than small electronic parts and money, Japan isn't. The need to know >anything about Japan, from the American point of view to be honest, >isn't needed. America can take care of America. We can grow enough food, >we can produce enough products. Japan on the other hand needs the rest ? of the world to survive.

I don't need anyone trying to tell me that we are the leading power in the world. We have been since WWII and despite what China's aspirations may be it isn't going to happen. The US is biggest economy in the world. Japan, a tiny little island country the size of California and Oregon is second. Those small electroncs parts have been used by NASA since the 1960s. They are used in tghe guidance systems of our smart bombs. Like England, Japan is an islamd country that needs raw materials from the outside. England dealt with that for a few centuries by Empire. Japan tried that and failed, but succeeded through commerical trade. Got news for you, America is a country that CAN be self sufficient but isn't. America is a country that CAN have a manufacturing base but isn't. We are not self sufficient in food, fuel or manufactured products. If we were we would be importing toxic frozen chinese foods, OPEC priced oil, or electronics from not only Japan, but now SKorea and China.

Relationships are not equal unless you bring equal things to the table. >Money isn't everything. Perhaps Japan should spend more time being >friendly with the rest of the world and less on answering questions for >surveys that show the rest of the world "real Japan." an unwelcoming >country for so many people.

You're right equality is necesasary. That's why I's like to see that Article 9 abolished and know that if Amerian lives are put to risk to defend Japan, then their lives are also going to be put to risk to defend us. Donb't know where you're "unwelcome Japan" is coming from but if you find that to be true, then just leave. I would.
pointofview at 01:37 PM JST - 8th December

Do you think these 3000 people even know anything about world issues/partnerships/tTreaties etc. aside from the abduction issue with N. Korea? Very inaccurate survey based on input from group thinkers who only bark about US bases in Japan...
noborito at 03:21 PM JST - 8th December

"unwelcoming country for so many people" relates to anyone other than white. Ever tried to rent an apartment. A basic right. A place to call home. A place to keep warm. A place seek shelter when it rains.

It takes an act from God to get some (a majority I believe) to rent to anyone other than white. And years ago even white people had a difficult time.