How is the lay judge system accepted by the Japanese and how should it be operated?

为了调查日本人对刑事司法的态度和对非专业法官制度的态度，本研究在日本普通民众中进行了两次问卷调查。（1）普通民众对犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的态度一般比较宽容。（2）对非专业法官制度的理解性和民主性评价较高，对发现真相的评价较低。（3）一般来说，他们不太愿意担任非专业法官，但高学历、高收入、对他人或政府依赖程度较低的自我指导型人士，其意愿更强。（4）第二次调查对非专业法官制度的正面评价多于第一次调查。

Our research project conducted two questionnaire surveys among ordinary people in Japan, in order to research the Japanese attitudes toward criminal justice and those toward the lay judge system.The knowledge we acquired from these surveys is as follows. (1)Ordinary people generally take severer attitudes toward suspects or defendants. (2)They highly evaluate the lay judge system with respect to understandability and democracy, while the evaluation of finding the truth is rather negative. (3)They are not very willing to serve as lay judge in general, however, the self-directive people with higher educational background and high-income, who are less dependent on the others or the government, are more willing. (4)Positive evaluations of the lay judge system were observed more in the second survey than the first survey.