Japan "positive impact on the world", Germany and the sequence top ... BBC · Yomiuri survey
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun is the BBC and carried out the joint poll, Japan is 56% people think has given a positive impact on the world, the answer and have a bad impact was 21%.
"Good influence" is the highest, along with Germany, "bad influence" becomes incidentally lower number to 18% of Germany, it has been evaluated comprehensively high.
Survey was carried out in 34 countries through January this year from last year in October, I heard politics, economy, the assessment of 14 countries and international organizations affecting the world in the security field.
"Good influence" in Germany, 52 percent of the European Union in Japan (EU), each 50% of Britain and France followed. "Bad influence" in the highest 54% of Iran, Israel 52%, even 50% of Pakistan became the 5 percent level.
Against for 23% of the "good influence" North Korea, "bad influence" went up to 44 percent. The United States remains in the 35% "good influence" is, 47% of the "bad influence" was exceeded.
If you look at the evaluation of each country for Japan, 78 percent of Kenya's "good influence" was the highest. "Bad influence" was conspicuous China 55%, Korea 52%.
Every year is done, in the survey of BBC survey "countries that give a positive impact on the world", Japan has become the top of the "country that gives a good influence" in three consecutive years.
And two countries that was evaluated as "Japan is the country that gives a bad influence in the world" by the example, China and South Korea. Well, but is good even if from wholeheartedly.
Even in Germany this year, even if the last year of Canada, the country that is evaluated together with Japan as a country that gives the "good influence" Despite replaced, Japan only and always it is quite amazing because lead evaluation. It phrase is no longer used for truly Asahi newspaper also, such as "is isolated in the world". Because the impossible is there too.
Japan of the results in this year's survey we will be following. From this year, but we have a questionnaire survey in Japan.
Questionnaire survey results of 2007 and 2006 for reference, we will be following.
However, it Why is BBC is a joint implementation with the Yomiuri Shimbun, this year. Although last year and two years ago I have a memory that had teamed up with the US Maryland University.
Also, the rate at which China is evaluated as "Japan is bad influence", in '06 71%, '07 is 63%, and the '08 is 55 percent, not compatible are you gradually down. That is evaluated from the people of communist dictatorship countries (bad evaluation is reduced), not that be proud even if thinking.
"We will not be able to hate the people," and denied the Yasukuni Shrine, the person to speak with the "China is very positive" to the fact that the Chinese authorities in poison dumplings case denied the poisoning in China has served as prime minister Thanks, is what Japan was also pretty Ska, from communist dictatorship countries. Well Fortunately for Japan, it is not likely to have six months later.
In the next year of study, will be evaluated as "Japan is bad influence" of China would have recovered 70 percent.
By the way, the Asian strain of April 2 despite had been across the board four percent Toka rise (including the Nikkei), Shanghai Stock Composite Index ended just 0.56 percent of the rise. (Temporarily had fallen) anymore, is no one to buy, it is a situation that is, more than it is the collapse of the bubble economy to a "sell will be no people" would continue to fall.
