【海外の反応】アメリカ人が好きな国1位は「日本」！かつての敵国がなぜ？驚きの調査結果にReddit民の議論が白熱

Japan is the most favorable country now... Japan is probably the only country remaining that is not overtly critical of the US. What a weird turn of event from the 80s, or even after the war.

Japan was absolutely HATED In the 80s. I am half Japanese, born and raised in The US. I remember a U.S. Congressman taking a bat to a Japanese made “boom ox” on the steps of Congress. There was a spate of anti-Japanese movies too, like “Rising Sun.” Japan of the 80s is today’s China, which is why I just roll my eyes at a lot of the anti-Chinese propaganda today. Especially since if you actually go to China, they like Americans a hell if a lot more than Australians and Canadians do.

So the country they fought directly in a world war thy like the most??

Japan is so interesting the west literally forgot how bad they were in WW2 and no one reminds them of it. and that's in addition to an extremely xenophobic government for decades. they don't even teach themselves as the bad guy in history but rather the victims Germany is xenophobic to a certain extent too but at least they teach about their own history and how they were the bad guys.

> the west literally forgot how bad they were in WW2 and no one reminds them of it. This isn't even slightly true. Plenty of people in the west are extremely aware of Japan's crimes. They're public record. Go on Wikipedia and read about the atrocities committed in places like Nanjing, Wuhan, and Manila. As for "no one reminding them," we do - they just lash out instead of owning their history. Japan is still largely in denial about how despicable the IJA's actions were, and the fact that many of those responsible became "respected business leaders" after the war. See, much like Italy, Japan's conduct in the 30s and 40s was largely swept under the rug because of the perceived threat of communism. Maintaining a conservative bulwark was more important than punishing war criminals. But it's not "forgotten." Anyone who knows their history knows what Japan did.

My personal list of countries I would immediately support going to war to aid would look like, in no particular order: Japan, South Korea, Australia, Germany, France, UK, Canada. If anybody wants the opinion of some random American dude. Sure there one or two I’ve forgotten too

Ohh my superior Japan😍

It’s always kind of fascinated me how strong(maybe not at this exact moment) our political and social relations with Japan and Germany are and how quickly that turned around after the war.

It's still in Japan's constitution to basically not have a military. Of course they do, but many of their military assets are classified as 'police forces,' and their military is still remarkable small for a nation that big. It's a big political issue over there whether they should remove that clause of their constitution, but many Japanese take pride in not getting involved militarily around the globe. It's also rather a cheap course of action, so politicians love the excuse to maintain a small military. It means they are reliant on US forces for defense, which means they aren't exactly going to rock the boat with the US. Aside from crime around US military bases, it doesn't really cause any issues.

Working with the USA after WW2 made Japan peaceful and rich. Why wouldn't they like us? They attacked us and we turned them into an ally. We prevented the communists from influencing their policy. And look what happened to communists in the 80s vs what happened in Japan, lol.

It massively helps that America is basically a baby country in terms of cultural history. Neither Japan nor Germany were historical enemies of the US, and were simply opposed due to political happenstance. Both countries were also capitalistic industrial semi-democracies that had a lot in common with the western world even by 1945. Didn’t take much to stamp out the old facism and quickly make them allies again, till this day.

The US helped German and Japan rebuild and gave a shitton of money

This is an example of how people will just make up an opinion if you ask them to. Most Americans know very little about most of these countries, yet hardly any of them chose “no opinion” when asked about them.

While I agree that many Anericans (or people in general) are under-informed about the rest of the world, I think in this case—where a survey is asking about an *opinion*—it’s defensible to give an answer, even if you know only a few things about a country. There’s no objective threshold of knowledge that justifies giving a favorable/unfavorable response. It’s still useful to measure sentiment this way, as long as you understand what it represents.

“Most Americans” ? Have you talked to “most Americans”? Interviewed them? How would you know what “most Americans” know and do not know? Most Americans are perfectly aware that Japan is a friendly country and Russia isn’t. Most Americans know that France is our oldest ally that stood with us before we were even a country. Most people view UK as basically our family member. An average American might not know who is the leader of Italy but we are well aware of the fact that it is a friendly country and tens of millions of us have visited it. Some of us more than once

Are these the only country that Americans can name?

A big part of Americans opinions of other countries is that they are completely ignorant to them.

Well they're Americans so they probably don't know what it is

My favorite part of something like this is that so many people don’t select “no opinion.” Most of this is some vague memory of some news report. You can’t form such dramatic opinions on places you hardly know.

Now ask them to point these countries out on a map 😂

My guess: 5% doesn't know the difference between the two Koreas, 4% simply likes that they're anti-west, and 4% likes that Kim exchanged "beautiful love letters" with Trump in his 1st term. Most of that 13% probably hasn't thought very deeply about it.

I am sorry 13% like DPRK?? Why???

You're underestimating the number of people who get confused between the two Koreas or support NK because they're "anti-west" and think everything negative about them is "western propaganda"

I don’t believe 13% of Americans have a favorable view of North Korea. Extrapolating, we’re saying millions of Americans are like, “Yeah, North Korea… seems like a cool place.”

How does Israel have a higher opinion than North Korea??

Can assure you, more people hate Isr*el than North Korea

Would love to see the reverse statistic on Denmark and Canada.

Denmark has flipped due to the threats on Greenland. 60% of Danes now consider the United States an adversary, while just 17% still view it as an ally. 4% of Danes had a favourable opinion of Donald Trump and 94% had an unfavourable opinion.

Canada was 91 before the recent events lol.The US also dropped for Canada, and is at around 30-34. Meaning abound 60% of Canadians currently hold unfavourable views of the US. That said though, I think if the question was about Americans/ Canadians, and not the countries themselves, I think Americans would rank a lot higher than that lol.

80% of Americans like Canada. 80% of Canadians hate America.

We dont hate America , just the leadership

I don't think so, Iceland/Switzerland/Norway/Sweden/Finland/ New Zealand are the most romanticized countries we have now. They never push their soft power because it's not in their interests. Plus most people prefer to live there if you ask them.

Palestine and Israel with something in common here I guess?

Both are annoying and expensive

Loving Israel more than China shows how much of a joke Americans are these days.

Israel being the most divided… Seems about right.

I dream of a world where Israel is at the bottom of this chart.

I hear too many crazy shit to view saudi Arabia in any positive light

Why are we friends with Saudi Arabia. It’s one of the worst regimes in the world. They even named the country after the family who has headed the regime, how ridiculous. It would be like naming North Korea “Kim Korea”

But I thought half of Americans were Putin acolytes according to Reddit? Very confusing numbers here if that’s the case.

I refuse to believe china isnt at the bottom there's a huge resentment towards them

I'm sorry but the only reason Iran is at the level of north corea is war mongering propaganda

No way 61% of Americans view India favorably.

"Iraq is completely wartorn, such a shithole" is what I imagine Americans think of Iraq when I see this graph.