日本人對美國的好感增加

Recently the Mainichi News on-live reported the following:
内閣府が３日発表した「外交に関する世論調査」で、米国に「親しみを感じる」とする回答が昨年の前回調査より２．１ポイント増の８２．０％に上り、１９７８年の調査開始以来、最高となった。「親しみを感じない」は２．９ポイント減の１５．５％で過去最低だった。
　調査は９～１０月に実施した。外務省は「東日本大震災で米軍が展開した『トモダチ作戦』など献身的な支援に対して国民が好意を持ったのではないか」と指摘。未曽有の大災害が日米両国の結び付きを強固にしたと分析している。
　調査は全国の成人男女３千人が対象で、回収率は６３．７％だった.
(試譯文)
Based on the "opinion poll on diplomacy" which the Cabinet Office released on the 3rd, there was a 2.1 points increase in the reply which supposed that there was a "feeling an affinity" with the US compared to the previous investigation last year, and had reached 82.0%. It was being the highest since the investigation was started in 1978. "Not feeling an affinity" was at 15.5% which was the lowest ever, with a 2.9 points decrease.
The survey was conducted from September to October. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted "Didn't people have good will to the self-sacrificing support, such as "Operation Tomodachi" etc. which the U.S. Forces had carried out in response to the East Japan great earthquake?" It was analyzed that the unprecedented catastrophic disaster had strengthened the connection between Japan and the U.S.
3000 adult men and women all over the country were objects of this survey, and the recovery rate was 63.7%.

I see it as a public relation success for the US.