Japanese public opinion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to deteriorate as tensions caused by China’s new Coast Guard Law intensify. According to the results of a public opinion survey released by the Japanese Cabinet Office in February, 81.8 percent of the respondents thought that the current relationship between Japan and China was “not good” and 77.3 percent did not feel good about China, Kyodo News reported. The media outlet quoted an anonymous Japanese Foreign Ministry official as saying, “The result is a reflection of every [Japanese] citizen’s judgment based on the current situation in China, and it will be difficult to improve [relations] until China changes its thinking.” It’s widely believed that the several major obstacles facing the two countries are the confrontation over the Diaoyutai Islands, also known as the Senkaku Islands among the Japanese, which has been worsening by the CCP’s newly passed Coast Guard Law—which explicitly allows its coast guard to …