世論 What Japan Thinks

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NTV did a survey on a number of hot topics in the news right now – a lot of questions, but not much detail, so the exact meaning of some of the answers is up for debate. They carries out the survey from the 14th to 16th of this month, asking 1000 people but only getting 479 sets of replies, so it’s a bit of a small sample.

Q1: Do you support the Koizumi cabinet?

Yes	62.2%
No	29.4%
Don’t know, no answer	8.4%

Q2: For those answering YES in Q1, why do you support his cabinet?

Because I have expections for the cabinet members	2.7%
Because I can trust Koizumi’s character	21.5%
Because it’s the cabinet of the party I suppose	12.1%
Because I have expections for the policies	11.4%
Because I can expect reform	21.8%
Because there’s no-one else to do the job	21.8%
No particular reason	5.7%
Others	2.4%
Don’t know, no answer	0.7%

Q2: For those answering NO in Q1, why do you not support his cabinet?

Because I have no expections for the cabinet members	9.2%
Because I can’t trust Koizumi’s character	29.1%
Because it’s not the cabinet of the party I suppose	19.2%
Because I don’t have expections for the policies	22.0%
Because there’s no leadership	1.4%
No particular reason	4.3%
Others	13.5%
Don’t know, no answer	1.4%

Q4: Please tell me which party you support. If you don’t support any party, choose which you have strong feelings for.

LDP	46.1%
DPJ	19.0%
New Komeito	4.0%
Communists	2.7%
SDP	2.9%
People’s New Party	0.0%
New Party Nippon	0.2%
New Party Daichi	0.2%
Others	0.4%
I don’t support any part	21.9%
Don’t know, no answer	2.5%

Q5: The DPJ have selected Maehara as their new leader. Do you support Maehara’s leadership of the DPJ?

Greatly support	17.5%
Support to some extent	37.6%
Don’t really support	32.4%
Don’t support at all	9.6%
Don’t know, no answer	2.9%

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