{
  "id": 13619862,
  "title": "26% in Japan see U.S. as biggest threat to world peace: survey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/26-in-japan-see-u-s-as-biggest-threat-to-world-peace-survey",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-11T01:31:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
    "slug": "japan-times",
    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/11/japan/japan-survey-us-biggest-threat-to-peace/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A recent survey in Japan reveals that 26.8% of respondents view the United States as the greatest threat to global peace, second only to China at 32.5%. This marks a significant increase of 9.3 percentage points from the previous fiscal year's survey, where the figure was 6.6%. The Japan Press Research Institute's latest fiscal 2026 poll, released on Saturday, asked participants to identify one country out of eight potential threats, including Russia and North Korea. China showed a 8.2 point rise, with 18.3% of respondents selecting it as the biggest threat. Russia dropped to third place, with 18.3% choosing it, after topping previous surveys. North Korea remained fourth, with 9.1%, while Iran, a country embroiled in military conflict with the U.S., was chosen by just 1.9%. The survey's official attributed the growing perception of U.S. threat to the unpredictability of actions taken by U.S. President Donald Trump. Notably, 82.5% of respondents believe Trump negatively impacts the world, a 3.1 point increase, while only 13.2% think he has a positive effect. The survey, conducted between July 17 and August 16, polled 5,000 individuals aged 18 or older across Japan, with 2,676 providing valid responses.",
  "summary": "The rate for the United States rose 9.3 percentage points from the previous fiscal 2025 survey. The figure stood at 6.6% in fiscal 2024.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Mainichi",
        "title": "Yoroku: Let's not allow Japan to slip into a horizontal writing-only world",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/yoroku-lets-not-allow-japan-to-slip-into-a-horizontal-writing-only",
        "published": "2026-10-11T04:00:12.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}