More than 83 percent of Japanese people said they held a favorable view of the new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent trip to China and South Korea, according to a local media poll published on Wednesday.

The survey by Kyodo News found that 83.2 percent of respondents expressed favorable opinions about Abe's first overseas trip on Oct 8-9, compared with 13.1 percent who said they held a negative view.

Asked if Japan's relations with China or South Korea would improve, 35.9 percent said yes, while 48.7 percent said they might or might not.

According to the telephone survey, which was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday with 1,035 randomly selected people, 56.6 percent of the respondents now oppose a visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine by a prime minister, up 5.3 percentage points from surveys late last month.

The Yasukuni Shrine honors 14 Japanese class-A war criminals from the Second World War along with more than two million war dead.

Source: Xinhua