Two-Thirds of Japanese Decide Not to Eat Food Produced in China

Tokyo—An opinion poll published by Kyodo News in Japan shows that 76 percent of the Japanese have decided not to eat any food produced in China because of the recent Chinese poisonous dumpling incident.

Kyodo News conducted a national telephone poll on February 9 and 10. The poll shows that 36.3 percent of the respondents who had eaten foods produced in China said they would never eat foods made in China and 39.6 percent who had not eaten foods from China before would never eat them. This totals 75.9 percent.

The poll indicates that before the poisoned dumpling incident, 57.9 percent of the Japanese people had eaten foods imported from China, but after the incident, only 21.6 percent of those respondents would eat them in the future.

The poll also shows that more than half of the respondents, 51.1 percent, think that the Japanese authorities did not deal with the incident well; nor that they were fully fulfilling their responsibility. Only 25.8 percent of Japanese people thought that the government was responsible in handling the incident.