Japanese views on China remain negative despite thaw in ties

Japanese public impressions of China remain "unfavorable," an annual survey showed Thursday amid an lingering territorial dispute, a U.S.-China trade war and unrest in in Hong Kong.The survey conducted by the Japanese nonprofit think tank Genron NPO and the China International Publishing Group found that Japanese respondents who have an "unfavorable" impression of China accounted for 84.7 percent, only down 1.6 percent from a year earlier.The survey was conducted amid a recent thaw in Sino-Japanese ties that had previously grown frosty over wartime history and territory. The Asian neighbors…READ FULL ARTICLE