日本人對中韓兩國外交關係民意調査有結果

Last month the Yomiuri New on-line reported the following:

内閣府は２４日、「外交に関する世論調査」結果を発表した。中国に「親しみを感じない」と答えた人の割合は２０１１年の前回調査比９・２ポイント増の８０・６％で、１９７５年の調査開始以降で最高となった。韓国に「親しみを感じない」という人も２３・７ポイント増の５９％と急増し、過去２番目に高い数字となった。外務省は「尖閣諸島（沖縄県）や竹島（島根県）をめぐる対立が、中国や韓国に対する国民感情の悪化につながった」と分析している。

　調査は９月２７日～１０月７日にかけ、全国の成人男女３０００人を対象に行い、１８３８人（６１・３％）が回答した。

　日中関係が「良好だと思わない」との回答は１６・５ポイント増の９２・８％、日韓関係が「良好だと思わない」も４２・８ポイント増の７８・８％に達し、ともに過去最高となった。

　中国との関係では、今年９月の尖閣諸島国有化をきっかけに中国各地で反日デモが相次ぎ、現地の日系企業が焼き打ちや略奪に遭ったことなどが影響したとみられる。「韓流ブーム」などを通じ近年は良好だった韓国との関係についても、今年８月の韓国の李明博(イミョンバク)大統領による竹島上陸が「冷や水」を浴びせた格好だ。

（2012年11月24日19時24分 読売新聞）

(試譯文)

On the 24^th (October) the Cabinet Office released the result regarding the "opinion poll on diplomacy". The percentage of people who answered that regarding China they "Do not feel friendly" was 80.6%, an increase of 9.2 points since the last investigation in 2011, and it became the highest since the investigation was started in 1975. As for South Korea, the people who "do not feel friendly" also had increased rapidly to 59%, an increase of 23.7 points and became the 2nd highest figure in the past. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs that analyzing it put it as due to "the confrontation involving the Senkaku Islands (Okinawa Prefecture) or the Takeshima (Shimane Prefecture) what had led to aggravation in popular sentiments towards China or South Korea."

The investigation was conducted between September 27 and October 7, and was performed for 3000 adult men and women all over the country; 1838 people (61.3%) responded to it.

On the Sino-Japanese relation, the reply that "I do not think that it is good" was 92.8%, an increase of 16.5 points; regarding the Japan-Korea relation "I do not think that it is good" reached 78.8%, an increase of 42.8 points; and both had become the highest ever.

Regarding the relation with China, it was concluded that the anti-Japan demonstrations that succeeded one after another in various parts of China in response to the Senkaku Islands nationalization incident in September this year, together with fact that Japanese companies on the spot encountered burning and pillage etc. had influenced the opinion result. About the relation with South Korea which was good in recent years through the "Korean boom" etc., the landing on Takeshima by President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea in August this year looked like that someone had showered "cold water" over the other party.

 I think the outcome of the opinion poll in Japan was totally understandable.