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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

04 January 2006

The Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database

http://www.mansfieldfdn.org/polls/index.htm

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Self-description: "[A] reference for researchers and others to help monitor key public opinion trends in Northeast Asia. We've collected and translated top-of-the line opinion polls on key policy-related issues from major media organizations and other agencies in Japan and South Korea. These polls were previously not available in English or on a central site on the Internet. Although the content of polls may vary, we will focus on issues of salient importance to policymaking and regional diplomacy, such as:
* Attitudes toward the United States and other nations in Northeast Asia
* Perceptions of China's rising power and potential North Korean threat
* Perceptions of the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-South Korea alliances
* Regional economic competition
* Domestic political trends; support for governments and administrations
We'll regularly update the polling data and archive the polls on our website. In addition, we plan to include supplemental commentary and analysis of the polls by leading experts in the Asia policy field."

List of polls published till Jan 2006: * 2005 Public Opinion Survey on Diplomacy by the Cabinet Office of Japan (Abridged) (05-12); * Nov 2005 Nikkei Special Telephone Opinion Poll on "Cabinet Reshuffle"(P05-7); * Aug 2005 Nikkei Special Telephone Opinion Poll on "Manifesto" (P05-11); * Aug 2005 Nikkei Special Telephone Opinion Poll on "Postal Dissolution" (P05-10); * Jul 2005 Monthly JoongAng Survey Research on US-Korea Alliance (P05-5); * Jul 2005 Nikkei Special Telephone Opinion Poll on Japanese Postal Privatization (P05-1); * Jun 2005 Nikkei Regular Telephone Opinion Poll (P05-9); * Apr 2005 Nikkei Regular Telephone Opinion Poll (P05-8); * Mar 2005 Dong-A Ilbo Opinion Poll on South Korean Attitudes Toward Japan and Other Nations (P05-2); * Mar 2005 Dong-A Ilbo Opinion Poll on Chinese Attitudes Toward Japan and Other Nations (P05-3); * Mar 2005 Dong-A Ilbo Opinion Poll on Japanese Attitudes Toward China and Other Nations (P05-4); * 2004 Public Opinion Survey on Diplomacy by the Cabinet Office of Japan (P05-6). URL http://www.mansfieldfdn.org/polls/index.htm

Internet Archive (web.archive.org)
[the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by:
Mindy Kotler, Japan Information Access Project (www.jiaponline.org)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]:
under 30
Please note that the above details were correct on 4 January 2006. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Wednesday, January 04, 2006