While looking for some old Gallup polls in Lexis-Nexis, I came across the following poll question from May of 1946. Some readers may find either the results or the answer options interesting:<\/p>\n
Which of the following statements comes closest to describing how you feel, on the whole, about the people who live in Japan?<\/em><\/p>\n The Japanese people will always want to go to war to make themselves as powerful as possible – 35%<\/p>\n The Japanese people may not like war, but they have shown that they are too easily led into war by powerful leaders – 39<\/p>\n The Japanese people do not like war. If they could have the same chance as people in other countries, they would become good citizens of the world – 19<\/p>\n Don’t know – 7<\/p>\n ORGANIZATION CONDUCTING SURVEY: NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER While looking for some old Gallup polls in Lexis-Nexis, I came across the following poll question from May of 1946. Some readers may find either the results or the answer options interesting: Which of the following statements comes closest to describing how you feel, on the whole, about the people who live in Japan? The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,119,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-english","category-us-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1nz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPOPULATION: National adult
\nNUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 2,589
\nINTERVIEW METHOD: Personal
\nBEGINNING DATE: May 1946
\nENDING DATE: May 1946
\nSOURCE DOCUMENT: MINORITIES, UNITED NATIONS
\nDATE OF RELEASE OF SOURCE DOCUMENT: May 1946
\nQUESTION ID: USNORC.460241, R11B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"