Consumers' and educators' recognition of functionality in selecting shoes for children : -Comparison between Japan and Germany-.

鞋子是支撑人的直立姿势和承受行走的重要工具。尤其是童鞋，在帮助儿童身体和脚的发育，以及获得足够的运动方面起着非常重要的作用。本研究调查了儿童选择鞋子的考虑因素和对鞋功能的认知。研究参与者是日本和德国的消费者和教育工作者。调查澄清了许多问题。日本的调查调查了来自18所幼儿园和5所托儿所的全国(关东、中部、近木、中部、四国和九州)约2812名监护人(收集率为70%)。日本监护人似乎没有意识到鞋子的重要性，不小心购买了他们孩子的鞋子。结果，他们中的许多孩子得到了不合脚的鞋子，并提出了麻烦症状。投资日托教师表现出比…更看重起飞速度的倾向更多功能。此外，市场调查发现，大多数鞋店没有专业的鞋匠，向消费者提供大量廉价的鞋子和带有字符印记的鞋子，在没有足够的专业建议的情况下吸引儿童的眼球。德国的调查包括在柏林、杜塞尔多夫、法兰克福、弗莱堡和米琴市三个地区的小学、幼儿园和托儿所进行市场调查和调查。此外，参观了里科斯塔公司的工厂和儿童鞋制造商的塑料操作鞋工作室土耳其工作室，澄清了德国的鞋子情况。这项针对小学的调查显示，德国儿童和监护人的足部问题症状比日本要少。德国家庭似乎已经认识到鞋子对支撑身体具有重要作用，有必要修复脚和鞋子。监护人承认，领带鞋是最好的鞋子。然而，即使在德国，随着孩子们年龄的增长，也有一种趋势，那就是喜欢毛毡标记皮带鞋和运动品牌鞋。较少

Shoes are important tools to support man's upright positioning, and to bear walking. Especially shoes for children play an important role very much in helping the body and foot growth in child development, and securing an enough exercise. This research investigated consideration a selecting the shoes for children and recognition concerning the functionality. The research participants were consumers and educators in Japan and Germany. The investigation clarified many issues.The survey in Japan investigated about 2,812 guardians (collection rate 70%) in nationwide (Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu) from 18 kindergartens and 5 nurseries. It appeared that the Japanese guardians has not recognized the importance of shoes and carelessly purchased their children's shoes. As a result, many of their children were given ill-fitting shoes and appealed trouble symptoms. Investing day nursery teachers showed the tendency to value the speed of the taking off putting on more than the … More functionality. Moreover, it was found by the marketing research that most shoe shops did not have professional shoe fitters and offered consumers a large amount of cheap shoes and shoes with character prints which catch children's eyes without enough professional advice.The investigation in Germany included the marketing research and survey at elementary schools, kindergartens, and the day nurseries in three regions (Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, and Miinchen). Moreover, factory visits at Ricosta Co. and plastic operation shoes atelier Turk-studio of the shoes for children manufacturer clarified the shoes circumstances of Germany. The survey at elementary schools showed that German children and guardians had fewer foot trouble symptoms than Japan. German families seemed to already recognize that shoes have an important role to support a body and it is necessary to fix feet and shoes the guardians acknowledged that tie shoes were the best shoes. However, there was a tendency to like felt-tipped marker belt shoes and sports brand shoes even in Germany as the children's the age goes up. Less