66% of Chinese say boycotting Japan products: poll

TOKYO, Jan. 5, Kyodo

Two-thirds of Chinese have refrained from buying Japanese products since the Japanese government's purchase in September of a significant part of a group of islands [1] at the center of a bitter dispute with Beijing, a Kyodo News online survey showed Saturday.
About 95 percent of 1,000 Chinese, both men and women aged 20 or older from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces who responded to the survey, said that the purchase of the islands from their private owner has intensified anti-Japan sentiment in their country.
The survey, conducted on 1,000 people in both Japan and China from late November through early December, also highlighted a gap in the way they view one another, with 31 percent of Chinese saying Japan is trustworthy despite the territorial dispute, and just 5 percent of Japanese saying they can trust China.