US and Japanese public goodwill toward each other collapsed between 1985 and 1993

Evidence

In 1985, 87 percent of the American public said they had a generally friendly attitude toward Japan. By 1990 this had dropped to 67 percent, and by 1993 a bare 50 percent of Americans felt favorably disposed toward Japan and almost two-thirds said they tried to avoid buying Japanese products. In 1985, 73 percent of Japanese described U.S. Japanese relations as friendly; by 1993, 64 percent said they were unfriendly. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 596