A record 80.7 percent of Japanese "do not feel friendly" toward China, according to the government's five-tier public opinion survey on foreign affairs.

The number is 0.1 point higher than the previous survey in November 2012 and the highest since the poll began in 1978.

The results, released Saturday by the Cabinet Office, reflect the tensions rising from the Senkaku Islands dispute and the two countries' differing perceptions of wartime history.