86% fear Japan could be involved in war as tensions mount: gov't poll

Over 86 percent of people polled in a Japanese government survey released Tuesday said they see a danger of the country being involved in a war, a figure that is slightly up from the previous poll in 2018.In the Cabinet Office survey, conducted between Nov. 17 and Dec. 25, 86.2 percent of the respondents said they see such danger or would say there is if they had to say, the highest figure since the 2009 survey when the response choices were changed to the current format. In the previous survey, 85.5 percent of the polled cited such a risk.A Defense Ministry official said the respondents se…READ FULL ARTICLE