世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking released the results of their latest ranking questionnaire, conducted over two days towards the end of August. An unspecified number of goo users replied to the question of what is your lasting impression of the Junichiro Koizumi premiership.

This departs from the usual fluff of these ranking surveys, but I cannot give any guarantee about how accurately the figures reflect true public opinion. As always, the score for each option is the percentage of the votes for the top answer. I’m impressed by Jun-chan’s Elvis impressions making ninth on the list, but disappointed that him dancing with his doppelganger Richard Gere didn’t get anywhere!

Additionally, I suspect that anything directly related to him backing Horiemon’s election campaigning was disallowed due to the ongoing court case.

Q: What is your lasting impression of the Junichiro Koizumi premiership?

Rank	Impression	Score
1	Visiting the Yasukuni Shrine	100
2	Post Office reform	96.3
3	Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka’s sacking	67.0
4	Repatriation of the five Japanese and families kidnapped by North Korea	67.0
5	Meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il	64.4
6	Sending the self-defence forces to Iraq	52.1
7	Cool Biz	44.2
8	Elvis Presley impressions	40.5
9	Publishing an email newsletter	39.0
10	Medical fees raising to 30%	32.8
11	Lunchtime meetings with Koizumi Children	31.9
12	Playing catchball with George W Bush	29.4
13	Appreciation of opera	27.0
14	Law for privatisation of the four Japan Highway Public Corporations	25.1
15	Destroying the LDP (in a good way?)	24.3
16	Reforming the Trinity (of economy, environment and energy?)	23.9
17	Tackling opposing forces	23.9
18	Great merger of the Heisei Era (eh?)	19.6
19	1 yen enterprise system (eh?)	18.0
20	Leprosy sufferers lawsuit conclusion	16.5
21	Strengthening the alliance with the USA	16.3
22	Building the image of a lion	15.7
23	Novel election activities	14.3
24	Economic sactions against North Korea	14.1
25	Pension reforms	13.4
26	Heavy use of common people for cabinet colleagues	11.5
27	30 trillion yen of government bonds	11.2
28	Sale of book of photographs of Koizumi	11.2
29	Anti-terrorism measures	11.0
30	Sale of CD of Koizumi-selected classic music tracks	10.7