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YOMIURI-GALLUP JOINT OPINION SURVEY DATA NOVEMBER 2007 (P07-40)

Yomiuri-Gallup Joint Opinion Survey Data November 2007

(The number is percentage. Words in parentheses were conducted in Japan only.)

The Gallup Organization conducted this survey through telephone interview with 1,000 national adults from November 9 to November 18 in 2007.

Male 46%

Female 54%

The Yomiuri Shimbun conducted this survey through telephone interview with 1,021 national adults from November 15 to November 18 in 2007.

Male 50%

Female 50%

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1. I am going to read some various institutions in American (Japanese) society. Would you say that you "do" or "do not" have a lot of confidence in?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.The President of the U.S. (Prime Minister)	36.2	40.4
2.The U.S.Congress (Japanese Diet)	31.9	23.2
3.Police department and public prosecutors offices	65.4	43.3
4.The courts	54.9	53.4
5.The military (Self-Defense-Forces)	77.8	46.8
6.Churches (Temples, Shrines, Churches)	75.3	41.1
7.Federal government agencies (Government agencies)	41.7	17.8
8.Local governments	49.1	37.1
9.Schools	63.7	44.9
10.Hospitals	74.0	54.3
11.Newspapers	48.6	61.1
12.TV stations	44.8	39.6
13.Major corporations	33.7	22.2
14.Labor unions	43.9	30.5
15.Other	10.2	0.8
16.None/No other	1.3	9.4
17.DK/NA	---	1.3

2. How would you rate relations between the United States and Japan at present?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Very good	9.4	1.9
2.Good	36.7	37.5
3.Just fair	30.9	22.9
4.Poor	7.3	29.5
5.Very poor	3.1	2.2
6.DK/NA	12.7	6.1

3. How much do you trust Japan (the U.S. )?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Very much	16.5	3.7
2.Some	44.3	30.1
3.Not very much	19.6	40.7
4.Not at all	10.0	13.1
5.DK/NA	9.5	12.3

4.With Japan’s new Prime Minister Fukuda now in office,do you think future relations between the United States and Japan will get better,get worse or stay tha same?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Get much better	2.5	0.7
2.Get better	17.7	8.2
3.Stay the same	45.1	74.1
4.Get worse	7.7	9.1
5.Get much worse	1.7	0.8
6.DK/NA	25.3	7.1

5. Which countries or regions do you think will become a military threat to the United States ( Japan )?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Japan (the United States)	25.5	25.8
2.South Korea	31.4	22.8
3.China	57.4	63.0
4.Association of Southeast Asian Nations	30.9	11.2
5.European Union	15.4	7.5
6.Russia	44.5	39.9
7.Taiwan	16.4	6.5
8.North Korea	64.5	73.7
9.India	18.8	14.2
10.Middle East	76.0	34.3
11.Central and South Pacific nations such as Australia and New Zealand	6.8	4.1
12.Africa	12.6	3.6
13.Latin America	20.6	10.6
14.Other	12.3	0.3
15.None, DK/NA	10.0	10.1

6.To what extent do you think the U.S.-Japan Security Agreements contributes to the security of the Asian-Pacific region?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Contributes greatly	14.7	18.6
2.Contributes somewhat	47.6	46.3
3.Does not contribute very much	12.6	14.5
4.Does not contribute at all	6.6	4.0
5.DK/NA	18.6	16.6

7.At present, the U.S. maintains many U.S. military bases in Japan under the U.S.-Japan Security Agreements. Do you think the scale of the U.S. military presence in Japan should be increased, maintained, reduced, or eliminated altogether?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Should be increased	8.1	1.3
2.Should be maintained	58.2	40.0
3.Should be reduced	12.1	42.2
4.Should be eliminated altogether	10.9	9.8
5.DK/NA	10.8	6.8

8.How worried are you that a major terrorist attack like the ones on New York and the Pentagon in September 2001, will happen again in the U.S. (will happen in Japan )?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Very worried	29.2	21.5
2.Somewhat worried	43.3	45.3
3.Not very worried	13.8	20.7
4.Not worried at all	11.9	8.5
5.DK/NA	1.9	3.9

9. Japan had performed logistical support activities such as dispatching Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels to the Indian Ocean and supplying fuel oil to the multinational force ships that are involved in anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan . However Maritime Self-Defense Force terminated these activities because the law which had established these kinds of activities expired on November 1st. Do you agree or disagree that the refueling mission by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force should be resumed?

	The U.S.	Japan
1. Largely agree	17.7	29.3
2. Somewhat agree	35.4	16.0
3. Somewhat disagree	7.9	13.4
4. Disagree	15.9	27.4
5. DK/NA	23.0	13.9

10.Regarding North Korea , which issues should the U.S. and Japanese governments, working in cooperation, give priority to resolving?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program	83.8	92.9
2.Getting North Korea to end its missile program and its missile launch	81.9	88.7
3.Resolving the cases involving the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea	61.1	87.0
4.Normalizing diplomatic relations between the U.S. (Japan) and North Korea	73.2	45.1
5.Providing economic aid to North Korea	38.2	24.3
6.Changing North Korea's political and economic systems	54.3	51.8
7.Other	2.5	0.3
8.None	5.2	1.1
9.DK/NA	1.2	1.9

11.The six-nation talks concerning the North Korean nuclear problem, which included Japan , the United States , China , South Korea , Russia and North Korea , are an attempt to get North Korea to abandon its program to develop nuclear weapons. Do you think that North Korea will actually abandon its nuclear weapons development program?

	The U.S.	Japan
1. Think so	10.5	13.2
2. Somewhat think so	11.4	13.9
3. Don't really think so	16.0	16.7
4. Don't think so	55.9	42.3
5. DK/NA	6.1	13.9

12. The United States has designated North Korea as a “state sponsor of terrorism” and is currently carrying out economic sanctions against North Korea North Korea is demanding that the U.S. remove these sanctions. The Japanese government has been urging the U.S. government not to remove its designation of North Korea as “state sponsor of terrorism” until the issue of North Korea ’s past abduction of Japanese citizens has been resolved. Do you agree or disagree that the U.S. should keep North Korea on the list of countries that are ‘state sponsors of terrorism” until the issue of North Korea ’s abduction of Japanese citizens is resolved?

	The U.S	Japan
1. Largely agree	47.2	63.4
2. Somewhat agree	28.4	11.4
3. Somewhat disagree	5.7	4.5
4. Disagree	9.6	10.4
5. DK/NA	9.2	10.4

13. How would you rate relations between the United States ( Japan ) and China at present?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Very good	3.9	1.1
2.Good	25.9	29.6
3.Just fair	45.3	26.9
4.Poor	12.3	33.3
5.Very poor	4.6	4.0
6.DK/NA	8.0	5.1

14. How much do you trust China ?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Very much	4.0	1.5
2.Some	31.5	14.2
3.Not very much	34.4	45.1
4.Not at all	25.1	28.9
5.DK/NA	5.0	10.4

15. Which country, Japan or China , so you feel be more important to the United States ( Japan ) in the POLITICAL maters?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Japan	38.8
2.The U.S.		44.6
3.China	39.6	34.4
4.Both equally	6.5	10.3
5.DK/NA	15.1	10.8

16. Which country, Japan or China , so you feel be more important to the United States ( Japan ) in the ECONOMIC maters?

	The U.S.	Japan
1.Japan	32.2
2.The U.S.		22.6
3.China	49.3	61.5
4.Both equally	6.7	6.1
5.DK/NA	11.8	9.8

17. How concerned are you about the safety of imported products from China ?

	The U.S	Japan
1. Very concerned	56.1	75.0
2. Somewhat concerned	24.1	18.0
3. Not very concerned	9.6	4.0
4. Not concerned at all	7.8	0.7
5. DK/NA	2.3	2.3

18. Next August, the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing , China . Do you think that the operation of these Olympics will be successful?

	The U.S.	Japan
1. Think they will be successful	49.7	21.4
2. Think they will be somewhat successful	35.0	25.0
3. Think they will not be successful very much	4.8	16.6
4. Not concerned at all	4.1	24.2
5. DK/NA	6.3	12.8

19. The consumption of oil and coal is causing an increase in greenhouse gases like CO2, which in turn contributes to the advancement of global warming. How concerned are you about global warming?

	The U.S.	Japan
1. Very concerned	48.8	71.8
2. Somewhat concerned	26.8	20.2
3. Not very concerned	9.3	4.4
4. Not concerned at all	10.9	1.3
5. DK/NA	4.2	2.4

20. The United States is not a member of the Kyoto protocol, an international agreement which prevents global warming and has been signed by many countries all over the world. Do you think that the United States should participate in the new international framework for preventing global warming?

	The U.S.	Japan
1. Think so	62.6	89.2
2. Somewhat think so	11.0	3.7
3. Don't really think so	5.4	0.7
4. Don't think so	12.6	0.8
5. DK/NA	8.5	5.6