DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09860
title: CBS News/New York Times/Tokyo Broadcasting System Japan Poll, November 18-21, 1991
title: Archival Version

description: This survey, in addition to providing an ongoing evaluation
of the Bush presidency, focused on Japan and the Japanese. Respondents
were asked whether they approved of George Bush's handling of the
presidency, foreign policy, and the economy. Other questions pertained
to the amount of attention paid to news about Japan, descriptions of
Americans and Japanese as competitive, easygoing, hardworking, lazy,
courageous, cowardly, peaceloving, and warlike, relations between Japan
and the United States, and the prospects for the future generation of
Americans and Japanese. Respondents were also asked if most Japanese
respect Americans and vice versa, and if Japan should be viewed as a
dependable ally for the United States in the future and vice versa.
Other queries centered around whether the increase in Japanese
investment in the United States posed a threat to American economic
independence, whether Japan had become a world power and should assume
responsibilities toward other countries, and whether Japan should act
as a leader in the world economy even if it required economic sacrifice
on Japan's part. Those surveyed were also asked about the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the
United States, the impetus behind Japan's involvement in World War II,
Japan's present military strength, and whether the treaty calling for
Japan's provision of bases for United States military forces in return
for the United States' defense of Japan should be continued. Additional
issues pertaining to Japan and the United States included the question
of economic aid to the Soviet Union, military assistance to other
countries, whether the United States should have sent troops to fight
in the Persian Gulf, and if Japan should have done more to help to
defeat Iraq during the war. Other topics included the field of
candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination and holiday
spending habits. Background information on respondents included labor
union membership, political party preference, political orientation,
religious preference, education, age, race, and family income.
description: A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling
units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone
numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic
region, area code, and size of place. Within households, respondents
were selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and modified by
Charles Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and Hursh, SURVEY
RESEARCH [Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963]).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times/Tokyo Broadcasting System Japan Poll, November 18-21, 1991
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over,
having telephones at home.
description: A weight variable has been included that must be used
in any analysis.Area codes, exchange codes, and telephone numbers have
been recoded to "999" and names of respondents have been blanked for reasons of confidentiality.Upon notification from CBS News, the title was changed to reflect the participation of Tokyo Broadcasting Systems and not Turner Broadcasting Systems.