Abstract
The present-day Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, took the first nationwide opinion poll in Japan in May 1940, when it questioned the public on middle school entrance examinations. In November the same newspaper followed with a nationwide poll on election procedures. These were perhaps the only opinion polls of the pre-war period. The sampling technique used in those polls was imprecise by today’s standards.
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Herbert Passin (ed.), A Season of Voting (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1979).
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Nisihira, S. (1983). Political Opinion Polling in Japan. In: Worcester, R.M. (eds) Political Opinion Polling. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05744-3_8
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