" FILE - In this Oct. 26 Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Plus , 2014 file photo, members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces march during the annual Self-Defense Forces Commencement of Air Review at Hyakuri Air Base, north of Tokyo. Seventy years after the U.S. defeated Japan in World War II, Americans are divided over Japan playing a more active military role in Asia - and most Japanese are opposed. The results of a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday, April 7 Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus Mens , 2015 in Washington, D.C., come as the two countries are finalizing a revision of their mutual defense guidelines that is expected to expand the scope of Japan's military activities in the region. (AP PhotoEugene Hoshiko, File) Seventy years after the U.S. defeated Japan in World War II, Americans are divided over Japan playing a more active military role in Asia — and most Japanese are opposed.
The results of a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday in Washington Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus Womens , D.C., come as the two countries are finalizing a revision of their mutual defense guidelines that is expected to expand the scope of Japan's military activities in the region.
The telephone survey of 1,000 Americans and 1,000 Japanese also found a high degree of trust between the two nations, a shift from the animosity that prevailed in the 1980s and 1990s when the two countries were embroiled in trade disputes.
Some of the findings:
MILITARY DIVISIONS
The U.S. government Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus White , stretched by global crises and tighter budgets, would welcome greater burden sharing by Japan in regional defense. Americans are less sure: 47 percent back a more active Japanese military in the Asia-Pacific, while 43 percent say, given its history, Japan should limit its role.
Likewise in Japan Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus Black , Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing his country to do more, but 68 percent of Japanese respondents favor limiting the military's role, and only 23 percent support expanding it.
A-BOMB DIVIDE
56: Percent of Americans who say the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified.
34: Percent who say they were not.
14: Percent of Japanese who say the atomic bombings were justified.
79: Percent who say they were not.
TRADING PLACES
A large majority of Americans viewed Japan as an unfair trader in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, only 24 percent describe Japan's trade policy as unfair in the Pew poll, while 55 percent call it fair.
WHO IS ABE?
73: Percent of Americans who say they have never heard of Abe.
69: Percent who have never heard of best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.
32: Percent who have never heard of Ichiro Suzuki Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus Clearance , Japanese baseball star playing in the U.S. major leagues.
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METHODOLOGY
The U.S. survey was conducted in the continental United States between Feb. 12-15 using landlines and cellphones. The survey in Japan was conducted from Jan. 30 to Feb. 12 and used landlines only, which covers 79 percent of Japanese households. The sampling error for the U.S. results is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. For Japan's, it's plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
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