Daily Life Satisfaction in Asia: A Cross-National Survey in Twelve Societies

Abstract

Aside from political leaders' popularity rates and the stock exchange index of business firms, ordinary people are highly interested in aspects of daily life, such as housing, income, health, family, food, human relations and work. Cross-national opinion polls on daily-life satisfaction were carried out in Japan,

The emergence of comparative politics in Japan

“…Health and environment have led Inoguchi (2014b) to examine 10 Association of South-East Asian Nations member countries. Inoguchi et al, (2014) covers 12 Asian societies on the degree of satisfaction with health, environment, income, family, housing, workplace, and food, taking advantage of the Asian Network for Public Opinion Research, a network association of Asian pollsters.…”

“…But their impacts were not small. Both regimes were ignited by the collapse in 1991 of the economic bubbles fermented in the 1980s and the subsequent deflationary economic trend which lasted more than two decades until Shinzo Abe II implemented what might be called the revolutionary policy of monetary easing in 2013 (Inoguchi, 2013a, 2014a). The influences of both the two-decade-long deflation (1991–2013) and monetary easing (from 2013 onward) on the nature of regimes are visible.…”

Satisfaction with Aspects of Daily Life: Japan 2013

“…However, the focus of their articles was substantially different from this article's, and the contexts in which surveys were carried out were different. This article focuses on a broad nationwide picture of Japanese citizens' satisfaction with aspects of daily life in the cross-national framework of 12 society surveys (Inoguchi et al, 2014). Otherwise, cross-national comparative multivariate analysis would have been adopted.…”