Description & Citation--Study No. 7071

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

07071

Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy in Osaka and Izumo, Japan, 1957

Mendel, Douglas

Mendel, Douglas. Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy in Osaka and Izumo, Japan, 1957. ICPSR07071-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-19. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07071.v2

Scope of Study

This study was conducted in 1957 in the cities of Osaka and Izumo, Japan. The respondents' opinions of Japan's national security were explored through questions eliciting views on the strength of and the need for security defense forces, Japan's rearmament, and the possible revision of the Japanese constitution to establish an army, navy, and air force. Japanese foreign policy was investigated, primarily with respect to relations with the United States, Korea, and China. Questions about United States-Japanese relations focused on the presence of United States military bases in Japan and on the return of Okinawa to Japan. Recognition of Communist China was another topic probed in the study, as was the Japanese government's policy toward the Republic of Korea. The survey also investigated respondents' political behavior and attitudes, including voting behavior, party support, and political efficacy. Demographic data include age, sex, education, and occupation.

armed forces, constitutional change, foreign policy, international relations, military bases, military strength, national defense, national security, political attitudes, political behavior, political efficacy, political participation, voting behavior, Izumo, Japan, Osaka

Global

• 1957

• 1957

The populations of Osaka and Izumo, Japan, ages 20 and older.

survey data

Methodology

personal interviews

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1984-06-27

• 2009-06-19 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.