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Hayashi, Fumi, (1994). Comparative Analysis of the Japanese and the Germans:
Some Topics on Social Values. Behaviormetrika, 21: 61-78.
Abstract: "The present paper discusses a comparative study of social values between
Germany and Japan, based on the data of ALLBUS (1982) and the nationwide survey
data collected in Japan in 1991. The main topics are a) desirable quality for a
child, b) legal abortion, c) most important aspect of job, d) meaning of Life, e) share
received in a social life, f) country's goal, and g) membership in organizations. Results
of the survey analysis on these topics show some differences between the two
nations. For example, on 'desirable quality for a child', the Germans desire qualities
concerned with a child's personal traits while the Japanese desire qualities which
would seem to be concerned with interpersonal relationships. The Japanese belong to
over twice the number of organizations that Germans do, implying that relationships
with others are more important for the Japanese. As for 'legal abortion', the Japanese
do have firm opinions. The Germans tended to consider legal abortion somewhat less
acceptable than the Japanese, and show some variations of their opinions on age and
religion depending on the content of questions about legal abortion."
Aufgenommen: 18. Fassung, Juli 2002
Hayashi, Fumi, (1996). Comparative Data Analysis of ALLBUS and Japanese Data:
Desirable Quality for a Child, Meaning of Human Life, Legal Abortion, and Important
Aspects of Job. S. 266- 288, in: Hayashi, Chikio und Scheuch, Erwin K. (Hrsg.),
Quantitative Social Research in Germany and Japan. Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
Abstract: "In the present paper, some results of our comparative social survey between
Japan and Germany are discussed. We conducted surveys in five nations using
Cultural Link Analysis: West Germany, France and Great Britain in 1987, the U.S.
and Japan in 1988 (Hayashi 1991). In 1990, another survey was conducted as part of
the same project, specially prepared to compare Germany and Japan, which is the
topic of this paper. In Japan, a longitudinal survey has been conducted every five
years since 1953 by the Research Committee of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.
In Germany, ALLBUS (ZA) has conducted nationwide surveys every two years
for the past ten years. These data are very important for the study of national character
and the way of thinking. We focused on the ALLBUS source for 1982 (sample
size 2, 991) (ZA 1982). Some questions found in their surveys had not been used by
us in Japan. Therefore, we conducted the special survey mentioned above in order to
include the ALLBUS questions. Ten questions were selected which we considered
that the Japanese could answer easily. The questions were translated from English to
Japanese. A nationwide survey was conducted in 1990 using face to face interviews.
The actual sample size was 1,555. The ten questions concerned the following. (1)
Desirable quality for a child; (2) Legal abortion; (3) Most important aspect of job; (4)
Meaning of life; (5) Share received; (6) Country's goal; (7) Interest in politics; (8)
Social class; (9) Religious faith; and (10) Membership in organizations. Below, each