Anti-Japanese sentiment
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Anti-Japanese sentiment (also called Japanophobia, Nipponophobia[4] and anti-Japanism) involves the hatred or fear of anything which is Japanese, be it its culture or its people. Its opposite is Japanophilia.[citation needed]
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Country polled | Positive | Negative | Neutral | Pos − Neg |
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China | 22% | 75% | 3 | -53 |
Spain | 39% | 36% | 25 | 3 |
Turkey | 71% | 24% | 5 | 47 |
Pakistan | 38% | 20% | 42 | 18 |
India | 45% | 17% | 38 | 28 |
Russia | 45% | 16% | 39 | 29 |
Peru | 56% | 25% | 19 | 31 |
Nigeria | 57% | 24% | 19 | 33 |
United Kingdom | 65% | 30% | 5 | 35 |
Mexico | 59% | 23% | 18 | 36 |
Kenya | 58% | 22% | 20 | 36 |
Germany | 50% | 13% | 37 | 37 |
Indonesia | 57% | 17% | 26 | 40 |
United States | 65% | 23% | 12 | 42 |
France | 74% | 21% | 5 | 53 |
Brazil | 70% | 15% | 15 | 55 |
Australia | 78% | 17% | 5 | 61 |
Canada | 77% | 12% | 11 | 65 |
Country polled | Favorable | Unfavorable | Neutral | Fav − Unfav |
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China | 4% | 90% | 6 | -86 |
South Korea | 22% | 77% | 1 | -55 |
Pakistan | 51% | 7% | 42 | 44 |
Philippines | 78% | 18% | 4 | 60 |
Australia | 78% | 16% | 6 | 62 |
Indonesia | 79% | 12% | 9 | 67 |
Malaysia | 80% | 6% | 14 | 74 |
Country polled | Positive | Negative | Neutral | Pos − Neg |
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China | 18% | 71% | 11 | -53 |
Mexico | 24% | 34% | 42 | -10 |
Pakistan | 34% | 15% | 51 | 19 |
South Africa | 41% | 17% | 42 | 24 |
India | 39% | 13% | 48 | 26 |
France | 55% | 29% | 16 | 26 |
Portugal | 43% | 13% | 44 | 30 |
United Kingdom | 58% | 26% | 16 | 32 |
Germany | 58% | 25% | 17 | 33 |
Ghana | 55% | 11% | 34 | 34 |
Australia | 60% | 26% | 14 | 34 |
Spain | 57% | 19% | 24 | 38 |
Egypt | 52% | 14% | 34 | 38 |
Kenya | 61% | 20% | 19 | 41 |
Turkey | 60% | 32% | 8 | 43 |
South Korea | 68% | 20% | 12 | 48 |
Italy | 66% | 18% | 16 | 48 |
Brazil | 66% | 16% | 18 | 50 |
Nigeria | 65% | 14% | 21 | 51 |
Canada | 67% | 16% | 17 | 51 |
United States | 69% | 18% | 13 | 51 |
Chile | 66% | 14% | 20 | 52 |
Peru | 64% | 10% | 26 | 54 |
Russia | 65% | 7% | 28 | 58 |
Philippines | 84% | 12% | 4 | 72 |
Indonesia | 85% | 7% | 8 | 78 |
Anti-Japanese sentiments range from animosity towards the Japanese government's actions and disdain for Japanese culture to racism against the Japanese people. Sentiments of dehumanization have been fueled by the anti-Japanese propaganda of the Allied governments in World War II; this propaganda was often of a racially disparaging character. Anti-Japanese sentiment may be strongest in Korea and China,[5][6][7][8] due to atrocities committed by the Japanese military.[9]
In the past, anti-Japanese sentiment contained innuendos of Japanese people as barbaric. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan was intent to adopt Western ways in an attempt to join the West as an industrialized imperial power, but a lack of acceptance of the Japanese in the West complicated integration and assimilation. Japanese culture was viewed with suspicion and even disdain.[citation needed]
While passions have settled somewhat since Japan's surrender in World War II, tempers continue to flare on occasion over the widespread perception that the Japanese government has made insufficient penance for their past atrocities, or has sought to whitewash the history of these events.[10] Today, though the Japanese government has effected some compensatory measures, anti-Japanese sentiment continues based on historical and nationalist animosities linked to Imperial Japanese military aggression and atrocities. Japan's delay in clearing more than 700,000 (according to the Japanese Government[11]) pieces of life-threatening and environment contaminating chemical weapons buried in China at the end of World War II is another cause of anti-Japanese sentiment. [citation needed]
Periodically, individuals within Japan spur external criticism. Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was heavily criticized by South Korea and China for annually paying his respects to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines all those who fought and died for Japan during World War II, including 1,068 convicted war criminals. Right-wing nationalist groups have produced history textbooks whitewashing Japanese atrocities,[12] and the recurring controversies over these books occasionally attract hostile foreign attention.[citation needed]
Some anti-Japanese sentiment originates from business practices used by some Japanese companies, such as dumping.[citation needed]