51% of Japanese feel relations with South Korea are "good": survey

A total of 51.2 percent of Japanese feel bilateral relations with South Korea are "good" or "rather good," a 5.1 percentage point increase from the previous year, a government poll showed Friday.The positive response in the poll, conducted from Oct. 17 to Nov. 24, eclipses 50 percent for the first time since the annual survey was switched to mail-in in 2020, and the latest figure is more than triple that from the l6.6 percent seen that year.A Foreign Ministry official said many Japanese feel that relations with South Korea have recovered since President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in 2022. Th…READ FULL ARTICLE