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52% of Japanese distrust U.S. gov't

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Sunday, July 24, 2005 at 12:41 JST
TOKYO — While 52% of Japanese people do not trust the U.S. government, 59% of U.S. citizens think of Tokyo as trustworthy, a joint public perception survey by Kyodo News and the Associated Press found Sunday.

The survey, conducted earlier this month to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, covered 1,045 respondents aged 20 or older in Japan and 1,000 aged 18 or older in the United States. On the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, 75% of the Japanese surveyed said it was unnecessary, while 68% of the U.S. respondents said they were unavoidable to bring the war to a rapid conclusion. (Kyodo News)