{"id":755,"date":"2007-07-24T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/japanese-and-attitudes-toward-kanji\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:32:08","slug":"japanese-and-attitudes-toward-kanji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/japanese-and-attitudes-toward-kanji\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese and attitudes toward kanji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken of What Japan Thinks has helpfully translated into English the results of a recent poll of 1,010 Japanese adults on their <a href=\"http:\/\/whatjapanthinks.com\/2007\/07\/19\/kanji-ability-in-children-and-adults\/\">attitudes about kanji ability<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 95 percent of those polled said they believe the kanji ability of elementary and middle school children is &#8220;undesirably low.&#8221; Of those giving this response, 56 percent associated the problem with a drop in school education levels. <\/p>\n<p>A slight majority (52 percent) of all those polled reported a lack of confidence in their own kanji ability. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the questions. For the responses, see the translation or the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.goo.ne.jp\/Result\/000509\/\">poll results in Japanese<\/a> (&#12302;&#28450;&#23383;&#21147;&#12303;&#12394;&#12393;&#12395;&#38306;&#12377;&#12427;&#35519;&#26619;, Goo Research, June 27, 2007): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you feel that elementary and middle school children&#8217;s kanji ability is sufficient?\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s undesirably low\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you think that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a problem\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you think that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Do you have confidence in your own kanji ability?\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No\n<ul>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t you have confidence in your own kanji ability?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What do you do when you cannot produce a kanji character?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken of What Japan Thinks has helpfully translated into English the results of a recent poll of 1,010 Japanese adults on their attitudes about kanji ability. A total of 95 percent of those polled said they believe the kanji ability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/japanese-and-attitudes-toward-kanji\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,113,6,29,13,28,55,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-computers","category-japan","category-japanese","category-kanji","category-languages","category-literacy","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7994,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}