The Cabinet and MOF scandal - Mar, 1998

The Asahi Shimbun conducted a face to face survey on the Japanese opinion about the cbinet and MOF scandal. The survey was done on March 1 and 2, 1998, for 3,000 randomly selected voters, and got effective response from 2,211. Proportion of male vs female was 48% : 52%.

  1. Do you support Hashimoto cabinet ?
  2. Why do you think so ?
  3. Please select one point for the cabinet's good point and bad point
  4. Which party do you like best ?
  5. (For 52% people who answered No favorable or NA to previous question) if you should choose one regardless your preference, which will you pick ?
  6. How do you trust Japanese bureaucrats ?
  7. What do you think is the problem regarding recent MOF executives business entertainment scandal ?
  8. Do you think the new "Bureaucrats Moral Act" should be made, or rather strictly apply current regulations ?
  9. If new moral act should be made, a candidate of minimum amount of gift to be reported is said to be ¥2,000. Do you think this amount is good enough ?
  10. A lawmaker who had been MOF bureaucrat was investigated in charge of illegal stock deal. What do you think is the root of these problem ?
  11. Do you think stock deal by lawmakers should be regulated ?