Political Socialization in Japan, 1968 (ICPSR 7390)

Principal Investigator(s): Okamura, Tadao

Summary: This study surveyed Japanese school children enrolled in grades 3 through 12 in the Japanese cities of Tokyo, Kobe, and Sapporo (large cities), Kanazawa and Nagasaki (medium cities), and in rural areas in the Aomori and Hiroshima prefectures. Questions focused on the attitudes of youth toward Japan's political leaders, their assessment of contemporary problems, such as rising prices and the position of Japan in the world, and their images of the United States and American foreign policy. (more info)

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Okamura, Tadao. Political Socialization in Japan, 1968. ICPSR07390-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1976. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07390.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07390.v1

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Summary:   This study surveyed Japanese school children enrolled in grades 3 through 12 in the Japanese cities of Tokyo, Kobe, and Sapporo (large cities), Kanazawa and Nagasaki (medium cities), and in rural areas in the Aomori and Hiroshima prefectures. Questions focused on the attitudes of youth toward Japan's political leaders, their assessment of contemporary problems, such as rising prices and the position of Japan in the world, and their images of the United States and American foreign policy.

Subject Terms:   cities, civil rights, foreign policy, inflation, international affairs, national prestige, perceptions, political affiliation, political attitudes, political leaders, political socialization, prefectures, rural population, school age children, social attitudes, student attitudes, students, urban population, youths

Geographic Coverage:   Aomori (prefecture), Asia, Global, Hiroshima, Hiroshima (prefecture), Hokkaido (prefecture), Hyogo (prefecture), Ishikawa (prefecture), Japan, Kanazawa, Kanto, Kobe, Nagasaki, Nagasaki (prefecture), Sapporo, Tokyo

Time Period:  

• 1968

Date of Collection:  

• 1968-07--1968-09

Universe:   Japanese school children aged 8-17 years.

Data Types:   survey data

Sample:   The survey was carried out in eight locations that belonged to one of the following types: (1) Large cities: Kobe, Sapporo, and the suburban (Yamanote) and downtown (Shitamachi) sections of Tokyo. (2) Medium-sized cities: Kanazawa and Nagasaki. (3) Rural areas: rural counties in the Aomori and Hiroshima prefectures. A primary school, a middle school, and a high school were selected at each location, and two classes from each grade level were surveyed. The selection of sites and schools was not based on random sampling, but the eight locations were chosen so as to reflect a variety of aspects of Japan, and the schools were characteristic for each particular area.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Standardized missing values.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-03-18

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