Political socialization in Japan, 1968
By: principal investigator, Tadao Okamura
Series: ICPSR -- 7390; ICPSR (Series) -- 7390
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Students; Attitudes; Politicians; Public opinion; World politics; Japanese Foreign public opinion
Description: The study was conducted in the summer of 1968 in the Japanese cities of Yamanote and Shitamachi, sections of Tokyo, Kobe, and Sapporo (large cities), Kanazawa and Nagasaki (medium cities), and Aomori and Hiroshima (rural areas). The survey was administered to school children enrolled in grades 3 through high school whose ages ranged from eight to seventeen years. The study 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.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: summer 1968.

Japan.

Okamura, Tadao. ''The Child's Changing Image of the Prime Minister,'' The Developing Economies, 4, December 1968.

Okamura, Tadoa. ''The Child's Image of America: Foreign Countries and Political Socialization,'' The American Review, 4, 1970.