The latest government survey on national character has found that 83 percent of Japanese, if they were to be reborn, would choose to live in Japan rather than anywhere else.
The results of the 13th Nihonjin no Kokuminsei Chosa (Survey on Japanese National Character), announced last Thursday by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, show that the ratio of people who would opt to live in Japan in their next life rose from 77 percent in the previous poll in 2008.
Conducted from October to December 2013, the survey drew valid responses from 3,170 people aged 20 to 85, according the institute, which is affiliated with the education ministry.