Japanese Perceptions of Social Justice

我们开展了关于正义感的全国调查。我们的重点是调查正义认知的工作机制，捕捉日本正义相关情感的具体特征，并描绘其纵向变化。由于日本社会在1990年代的S期间发生了巨大变化，从经济的“繁荣”到衰退，从自民党的长期统治到脆弱的联合政府，我们将1997年的调查数据与1991年的调查数据进行了比较。例如，我们发现，人们已经开始看到贫困的原因，而更多的是社会原因。然而，我们普遍发现，尽管社会发生了剧烈的变化，但日本人在司法方面的观念并没有发生太大变化。但是，当我们比较正义的社会氛围问题时，90年代的S似乎比前几个时期感受到了更多的不公，我们还发现了与“规则”相关的判断和与“努力”相关的态度的一些特殊的工作机制，我们还调查了日本人在“收入分配形像”、“职场性别不平等观念”和“对少数群体的社会政策意见”方面的特点。

We conducted national survey on perceptions of justice. Our main focus was to investigate the working mechanism of justice perceptions, to capture specific features of Japanese justice-related feelings, and to depict their longitudinal changes.Since Japanese society had changed drastically during 1990's, from the "boom" economy to recession, from the abiding LDP rule to a fragile coalition government, we compared 1997 survey data with 1991 one. We found, for example, that people had come to see the causes of poverty more social ones. However, we generally found that Japanese justice-related perceptions had not changed so much in spite of the drastic social change. However, when we compare the question on social atmosphere of justice, it seems that more people felt injustice in 1990's than in former periods.We also found some special working mechanism of "rule" related judgments and "effort" related attitudes.We also investigated Japanese characteristics on "image of income distribution, " "perceptions of gender inequality in the workplace, " and "opinions about social policies concerning minorities."