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Just another rambling thought on a not-so-new topic: Vietnam’s fandom for Japan. My friend today asked me about some trends in shopping behaviour of Vietnam and when discussing, I just (re)realised how much “Made-In-Japan” things are favoured by most of my acquaintances.
According to the 2015 survey by Pew, 82% of the Vietnamese population answered to be “fan” of Japan while only 19% claimed to be pro-China. This survey was conducted among 15,310 people from 10 Asia-Pacific countries and the US from 6 April to 25 July, 2015. Excluding in the PRC and ROK, Japan is the most favourite country in most of the surveyed nations. Vietnam ranked second in the list, only behind Malaysia whose population interestingly love both Japan (84%) and China (78%). The generation gap was also reflected in the survey when young Vietnamese accounted for 59% of the population saying “like Japan very much”. Meanwhile…
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