By Ken Y-N (
March 21, 2009 at 21:21)
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Although Observing Japan beat me to the punch by already presented extracts from this survey, I will, as is my wont, present the full results of a look by the Cabinet Office Japan at the SDF and defense.
Demographics
Between the 15th and 25th of January 2009 1,781 randomly selected members of the public aged 20 or older completed a face-to-face survey. Initially, 3,000 people were selected, but 40.6%, or 1,219 people, did not take part due to having moved, not being in, refusing, etc. Of those who took part, 52.0% were female, 8.5% in their twenties, 13.9% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 20.6% in their fifties, 23.0% in their sixties, and 18.0% aged seventy or older. 27.5% lived near a military facility, 69.5% did not, and 3.1% didn’t know. However, the definition of “near” was not given.
The SDF, or Self-Defense Force, is the Japanese not-really-a-military-honest force that defends these shores and occasionally forays further afield, such as spending a couple of years hiding in their barracks in Iraq.
In part three of this survey I liked Q11; Better Red Than Dead is not a popular option at all! In Q15, over seven in ten fear a war involving Japan, which to me seems most unlikely. The only circumstance I can see involving Japan is North Korea attacking South Korea, and the only circumstance I can see for that is Kim Jong-il deciding to go out in a blaze of glory, although I hope that his recent stroke has debilitated him enough so he is unable to do anything quite as silly as that.
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By Ken Y-N (
March 20, 2009 at 20:20)
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Although Observing Japan beat me to the punch by already presented extracts from this survey, I will, as is my wont, present the full results of a look by the Cabinet Office Japan at the SDF and defense.
Demographics
Between the 15th and 25th of January 2009 1,781 randomly selected members of the public aged 20 or older completed a face-to-face survey. Initially, 3,000 people were selected, but 40.6%, or 1,219 people, did not take part due to having moved, not being in, refusing, etc. Of those who took part, 52.0% were female, 8.5% in their twenties, 13.9% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 20.6% in their fifties, 23.0% in their sixties, and 18.0% aged seventy or older. 27.5% lived near a military facility, 69.5% did not, and 3.1% didn’t know. However, the definition of “near” was not given.
The SDF, or Self-Defense Force, is the Japanese not-really-a-military-honest force that defends these shores and occasionally forays further afield, such as spending a couple of years hiding in their barracks in Iraq.
Part two of this survey is surprising to me in that a majority of people favour the overseas dispatch of Japanese forces. I would like to have seen a question on why people approve of the anti-piracy mission in Q8; is it to increase Japan’s standing in the UN, that a few boats don’t pose a real threat to a destroyer or two, or what?
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By Ken Y-N (
March 19, 2009 at 23:29)
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Although Observing Japan beat me to the punch by already presented extracts from this survey, I will, as is my wont, present the full results of a look by the Cabinet Office Japan at the SDF and defense.
Demographics
Between the 15th and 25th of January 2009 1,781 randomly selected members of the public aged 20 or older completed a face-to-face survey. Initially, 3,000 people were selected, but 40.6%, or 1,219 people, did not take part due to having moved, not being in, refusing, etc. Of those who took part, 52.0% were female, 8.5% in their twenties, 13.9% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 20.6% in their fifties, 23.0% in their sixties, and 18.0% aged seventy or older. 27.5% lived near a military facility, 69.5% did not, and 3.1% didn’t know. However, the definition of “near” was not given.
The SDF, or Self-Defense Force, is the Japanese not-really-a-military-honest force that defends these shores and occasionally forays further afield, such as spending a couple of years hiding in their barracks in Iraq.
Part one of this survey had a good example of trying to get the results one wants from a survey. For Q3 they presented a card describing the relative strengths of Japan’s SDF versus China, Taiwan and the two Koreas, while omitting to say that all the other countries have conscription, and Japan’s spending on hardware makes their smaller number of tanks and planes less significant than it seems by just looking at the raw data.
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