Respond to each of the following statements by marking the choice deemed most appropriate to the personality of the role you have chosen to assume. Print out the entire survey and bring it to class with you on Monday, April 26, 1999.  Be prepared to defend and explain your responses in character during our in-class discussion of survey results.

Use the following key to indicate your responses to individual survey statements:

1. ____ The materialistic orientation of younger citizens will force change on the current system of political, social and economic organization.
2. ____ The influences of the West on Japan's popular culture has eroded our ingrained sense of cultural uniqueness.
3. ____ It is important for Japan to be on good terms with other nations, whatever the cost.
4. ____ More government funds should be invested in public universities to make them competitive with private research and development institutions and western universities.
5. ____ I willingly adopt modern conveniences, even at the expense of traditional customs and habits.
6. ____ Confucian values continue to influence contemporary Japanese life.
7. ____ Japanese Self-Defense forces should be permitted to participate in situations deemed threatening to the world community as interpreted by the United Nations.
8. ____ Local Shinto shrines have an important place in contemporary religious and culture life and should be maintained and preserved.
9. ____ Public schools should display the national flag and students should sing the national anthem on a daily basis as an expression of patriotism.
10. ____ Japan today should consider itself the equal of any western nation.
11. ____ Government-financed child care centers should be available to the children of working couples.
12. ____ In order to best benefit society at large, women should stay home with children and not pursue a career outside the home.
13. ____ The United States remains Japan's most important ally and friend.
14. ____ Westernization threatens to overwhelm traditional cultural values and should therefore be severely curtailed.
15. ____ In the midst of the current economic downturn, women should willingly forgo a search for full time employment so as to bring down national unemployment statistics.
16. ____ Salarymen continue to be overworked despite the official recognition given karoshi ("death from overwork") as a life-threatening condition among today’s white collar workforce.
17. ____ Sumo, not baseball, should be considered Japan’s official national sport.
18. ____ The influences of the West on Japan's popular culture has eroded our ingrained sense of cultural uniqueness.
19. ____ Japan should seek to act as a diplomatic intermediary between nations involved in international disputes.
20. ____ Zen continues to play a defining role in maintaining the nation’s sense of cultural identity.
21. ____ Using the service of a nakodo ("matchmaker") remains a good way to ensure a proper marriage match.
22. ____ Current economic conditions in Japan will improve only with the adoption of international standards for behavior and adherence to mainstream international economic policies.
23. ____ The nation’s economic and social goals continue to be well served by the current system of educational goals, priorities and standards.
24. ____ The police services have lost their ability to control the yakuza because of organized crime’s close protective associations with large corporations.
25. ____ Encouraging educational diversity should replace the uniformity of current national standards at both the primary and middle school levels.
26. ____ College and universities need to revise their standards in order to make the undergraduate experience more beneficial to students in today’s competitive and complex world.
27. ____ Having paid his debt to society in a detention facility and having passed a psychological evaluation indicative of successful reformation, a criminal should be welcomed back into society without discrimination or penalty.
28. ____ Young married couples today feel assuming responsibility for the husband’s parents in their old age represents an unwelcome burden to be avoided if possible.

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