An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.2 High-School Pupils and Newspapers
(1956. 252 pages)
We made this survey in order to find how much high school
pupils read papers, and how well they understand them, and
also to ascertain the real conditions of the mass
communications with which they come in contact.
We examined about 5,000 pupils of full-time senior
high schools in Tokyo, at Akita City and at Kakunodate-mati,
Akita Prefecture, in the following points:
1) What part of the newspaper do high school pupils
read first?
2) How many hours do they read papers a day ?
3) How well do they read each article?
4) Why do they read papers?
5) Do they find papers difficult?
6) Do they trust papers?
7) What are the factors that influence the degree to which
they come in contact with papers?
8) How well are the paper's contents understood?
9) How do the district and home influence them in
understanding papers?
10) Are school bulletins read?
11) What do they understand about international
affairs through papers.
12) How does the manner of news presentation influence
their understanding?
13) What books do they read?
14) How do they come in contact with radio and movies?
This survey was made on a relatively large scale. Sixteen
schools, including one national, five public, and ten private
schools, were chosen at random from among the full-time high
schools in Tokyo. Therefore, the sixteen schools may
be regarded as representative. The two prefectural schools
in Akita City belonged to the upper stratum of high
schools. This inclination was redressed by a survey of all the
pupils at a high school in Kakunodate-mati. Consequently, the
results of this survey can be presumed to be characteristic of
pupils of full-time senior high schools all over Japan.
This report mainly faithfully describes the data obtained by
the survey. Concerning the above-mentioned points, many
tables are appended, analyzing the data by region, grade, and
sex.
This is the first report of a general survey under the
title of "Youth and Newspapers. Their Approach and
Comprehension," made from 1954 to 1955 by a committee
comprized of five persons from the Institute, six from the
Japanese Newspaper Association, and four from universities.
The report was written mainly by HAYASI Siro~ of the
Institute and KAMEI Kazutuna of the Association; it was
published under the joint auspices of the Institute and the
Association.
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