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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3808)	12/2/2004 7:12:18 PM
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Chinese 'not close' to Japan 30/11/2004 7:44 More than half of Chinese people do not feel close to their neighbor Japan, mostly because the latter has not "seriously reflected" on its invasion of China five decades ago, a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) has revealed. The report, released by the CASS Institute of Japanese Studies on its official Website yesterday, says that 31.2 percent of Chinese "do not feel close" to the Japanese and 22.4 percent feel "very much unneighborly." Of those, 26 percent said they felt the way they did because Japan had invaded China, while 61.7 percent said that it was because, after five decades, Japan has still made no serious self-examination of its invasion. "Compared with the previous survey, we saw an obvious increase in the percentage of Chinese who feel distant from Japan psychologically," said Jiang Lifeng, director of the institute. "The main cause is the events in Japan that have harmed Chinese feelings in recent years." Japanese prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro has visited the Yasukuni Shrine honoring World War II criminals for four consecutive years. About 42 percent of those surveyed said Japanese prime ministers should not visit the controversial shrine at any time while 5 percent said it was Japan's own business. In the first survey, done by the institute in 2002, 43.3 percent people said they did not feel close to Japan, 10.3 percentage points lower than this year's figure, Jiang said. And those who felt close or very close to Japan saw a slight growth from 5.9 percent two years ago to 6.3 percent now, the report said. The institute sampled 3,300 people nationwide in September-October this year and received 2,987 valid questionnaires. Almost 900 people wrote short notes about Japan and relations between the two countries. These notes included both criticism of Japan for its past and present behavior and strong expectations of establishing friendly relations, Jiang said. "There are both great difficulties and strong drives in Sino-Japan relations, which is the reality that the two countries must take seriously," he said. Most chinese decided their attitude towards Japan from a historical perspective, some from political and economic concerns and very few were based on personal feelings, Jiang said. Only 0.7 percent of people who felt unneighborly towards Japan did so because of unhappy experiences with Japanese, the report said. Xinhua english.eastday.com