Political socialization in Japan, 1968

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.