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Questionnaire Survey concerning the awareness of the Residents of foreign
nationality living in Tachikawa City
＊ Please write the number / numbers that correspond to your circumstances on the answer sheet provided for the selection type questionnaires.
For the description type questionnaires, please answer with languages of Japanese, English, Chinese or Hangul, as much as possible.
[I] Concerning yourself
1. Please indicate your nationality and first language.
2. Please indicate your gender. (1) Male (2) Female
3. Please indicate your age.
(1) 19 years old and younger (2) 20 to 29 years old (3) 30 to 39 years old (4) 40 to 49 years old (5) 50 to 59 years old (6) 60 to 69 years old
(7) 70 years old and older
4. Please indicate the duration of your stay in Japan.
(1) 3 months (2) 3 month to 1 year (3) 1 to 3 years (4) 3 to 5 years (5) 5 to 10 years (6) 10 or more years
5. Please indicate your status of residence. (Please indicate only the one option that applies to your status.)
(1) Professor (2) Artist (3) Religious Activities (4) Journalist (5) Investor/Business Manager (6) Legal/Accounting Services
(7) Medical Services (8) Researcher (9) Instructor (10) Engineer
(11) Specialist in Humanities/International Service (12) Intra-company Transferee (13) Entertainer (14) Skilled Labor (15) Technical Intern Training (16) Cultural Activities (17) Student (18) Trainee (19) Dependent (20) Designated Activities (21) Permanent Resident
(22) Spouse or Child of Japanese National
(23) Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident (24) Long Term Resident (25) Special Permanent Resident (26) Other
6. Please indicate your marital status.
(1) Not married (2) Married (3) Divorced or bereavement
7. Whom have you been living with? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.) (1) Spouse (2) Parent(s) (3) A child (or children) (4) Sibling(s)
(5) Friend(s) (6) Other (7) Reside alone
[II] Life in Tachikawa City
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residence such as around your house or the administrative area of the residents' association.
1. How long have you lived in Tachikawa City?
(1) 3 months or less (2) 3 months to 1 year (3) 1 to 3 years (4) 3 to 5 years (5) 5 to 10 years (6) more than 10 years
2. What are the merits of living in Tachikawa City? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Good environment (2) Facilities for communication (3) Facilitates for shopping (4) Low rental fees (5) Varieties of learning opportunities (6) Safe
(7) Easy to get information (8) Low commodity prices (9) Easy to find a job (10) Good to raise children with easy access to nursing and care services
(11) Good educational environment for children
(12) Possible to participate many cultural and leisure opportunities (13) Safe when I fell ill (14) Easy to get advice or consultation
(15) Many opportunities to get interchange (16) Neighbors and community residents are kind
(17) Other
3. Have you had any bad experiences or trouble while living in Tachikawa City? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Inferior environments (2) Inconvenient transportation (3) Inconvenient shopping (4) Rental fees are expensive
(5) Insufficient learning opportunities (6) Poor public security
(7) Difficult to get information (8) High commodity prices (9) Difficult to find work
(10) Insufficient nursing services and difficult to raise children (11) Poor educational environment
(12) Insufficient opportunities for cultural or leisure activities
(13) Unsafe when I feel ill (14) Difficult to get advice or consultation (15) Insufficient opportunities to get interchange
(16) Neighboring people and community figures are unfriendly (17) Other
4. Where do you get information concerning daily life? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) City bulletin "Koho Tachikawa" (2) At City Hall (3) Leaflets supplied at City Hall and other offices (4) Tachikawa City Official Website
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(10) Family (11) Japanese friends and / or acquaintances (12) Friends / acquaintances other than Japanese
(13) Japanese language school and / or other volunteer bodies (14) Ethnic shops (15) Religious facilities such as church, synagogue or mosque (16) Other
5. What technology do you use to source information? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) Computer (2) Smart phone (3) Mobile phone (4) Tablet PC (5) I don't use any electronic devices.
6. What kind of information are you looking for? (Please indicate up to five applicable options.)
(1) City guidance
(2) Information concerning rules for daily life
(3) Information supplied from the administrative services (4) Information supplied at the counseling desks
(5) Information concerning the regional interchange activities (6) Japanese language learning information
(7) Languages other than Japanese learning information (8) Job information
(9) Housing information
(10) Information concerning residential qualifications (11) Medical and hospital information
(12) Nursing and education information
(13) Information concerning volunteer activities
(14) Information concerning cultural and leisure activities (15) Other
7. Do you associate with the local Japanese citizenry? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) I have a friend with whom I exchange greetings. (2) I have a friend with whom I converse.
(3) I have a friend whom I see socially on a regular basis. (4) I have a friend to consult when I encounter trouble.
(5) I have no acquaintance or social interaction with any Japanese people. (6) Other
8. Do you participate in local activities? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.) (1) Activities of the Residents' Association and/or children's association
(2) School-related activities such as PTA (3) Interest and/or sporting activities
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(7) I don't participate in local activities
(8) I don't know of any arranged local activities.
9. What kind of local activities do you wish to participate in? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) Activities of the Residents' Association and/or Children's Association (2) School-related activities such as PTA
(3) Interest and/or sporting activities
(4) Popularization activities pertaining to the culture of your own country (5) Volunteer activities
(6) Other
(7) I do not wish to participate in local activities (8) I don't know the local activities.
10. What kind of interchanges you want to perform? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) I want to forge closer ties with local inhabitants.
(2) I'd like to introduce the culture of my country of origin. (3) I'd like to learn Japanese customs and cultures.
(4) I'd like to participate in volunteer activities. (5) I'd like to participate in local events.
(6) I'd like to join an answer sharing the same interests as myself. (7) Other
(8) I don't desire any social or cultural interchange.
[III] Administration of Tachikawa City
1. Do you know the following services and systems? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) Health Insurance (2) Pension
(3) Nursing Insurance (4) Public assistance
(5) Reduction of infants’ medical expenses (6) Child benefit and child rearing allowance (7) Issuance of the maternity record book (8) Immunization
(9) Infants medical examination (10) Cancer screening
50 (14) Consultation desk for foreigners
(15) Support for children enrolled in international school (16) Entrance to public school
(17) Interpreter dispatch to public school (18) Entrance to nursery school
(19) Entrance to after-school childcare center (20) Japanese language classes
(21) I don't know.
2. Do you have any request to the Tachikawa City Hall concerning the following administrative services? (Please indicate up to five applicable options.)
(1) Provision of multilingual integral information of system and/or services
(2) Multilingualization of documents (e.g. application and registration statements, notices)
(3) Multilingualization of city bulletins
(4) Inclusion of Furigana (Japanese syllabaries attached to Chinese characters to assist in reading correspondence) with application and registration statements, notices, etc.
(5) Multilingualization of pamphlets and materials issued by the City Hall (6) Consultation desks proficient in foreign languages
(7) Increase in multilingual staff numbers.
(8) Enhancement of the Japanese language classes
(9) Increase a pictorial symbol and multilingual expressions to the guidance displayed in the city.
(10) Multilingualization of information for general life
(11) Enhancement of foreign language literatures in libraries
(12) Interpreter dispatch if required (such as medical institution, public institution) (13) Take in multicultural education to municipal elementary and middle schools. (14) Education of the multicultural consciousness to Japanese residents
(15) Offer the interchange with foreign residents and Japanese residents, and offer of the opportunity of a mutual understanding
(16) Other
3. How do you get the administrative service information from Tachikawa City? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) City bulletin "Koho Tachikawa" (2) At City Hall
(3) Leaflets supplied at City Hall and other offices (4) Tachikawa City Official Website
(5) Tachikawa City Twitter account
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4. How do you want to receive administrative services information of Tachikawa City? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) City bulletin "Koho Tachikawa" (2) At City Hall
(3) Leaflets supplied at City Hall and other offices (4) Tachikawa City Official Website
(5) Tachikawa City Twitter account
(6) Kairanban (circular notice) and/or bulletin board of the residents' association (7) Japanese language school and / or other volunteer bodies
(8) Other
5. Do you consider it necessary for foreigners to participate municipal administration? (Please indicate the option that applies to you.)
(1) Yes. (2) No.
If yes, please answer the following "6". If no, please go to the following "IV".
6. What kinds of system do you think would be needed to allow foreigners to participate in municipal administrative duties? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Suffrage / voting rights extended to foreigners living in Japan over a certain prescribed period of time.
(2) Appointment of a foreign committee member to consultative bodies. (3) Employ foreign residents in governmental departments.
(4) Establishment of a foreigner meeting group.
(5) Establishment of a monitor system conducted in a foreign language. (6) Other
[IV] Disaster prevention
1. Do you have any concern about potential emergencies and / or disaster scenarios? (Please indicate the option that best applies to you.)
(1) Yes. (2) No.
If yes, please answer the following "2". If no, please answer the following "3".
2. What do you think will mitigate any concerns? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Provision of a more intelligible guidance plan detailing evacuation areas and routes.
(2) Distribution of multilingual pamphlets detailing emergency instructions. (3) Provision of multilingual information and consultations in various languages. (4) Provision of multilingual information and consultation concerning disasters and other emergency matters on a regular and / or daily basis.
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(6) Foreign residents afforded opportunities to participate in emergency drills. (7) Foreign residents associate with local residents socially.
3. Do you know the prescribed local evacuation site?
(1) Yes. (2) No. (The specified evacuation sites are described on the Tachikawa City website. Please confirm your residential evacuation site.)
4. What are your measures against disasters? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) Food, drinking water, etc. are prepared. (2) The evacuation area is investigated.
(3) The contact details among family for emergency are decided. (4) Disaster prevention information from the city, etc. is checked. (5) Measures to prevent furniture falling are taken domestically. (6) Formerly participated in any number of emergency drills. (7) Collected leaflets concerning disaster prevention.
(8) Enable us to cooperate with local residents.
(9) I have participated in the lecture and experience for disaster prevention. (10) I have nothing to do.
5. What do you think are effective measures to acquire disaster information if any disasters occur? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Computer, tablet PC (2) Smart phone, mobile phone (3) City bulletin boards (4) Radio
(5) Television
(6) Bulletin boards situated in stations and public venues (7) Loudspeaker announcement via circulating patrol cars
[V] About Japanese
1. Do you have any trouble concerning the Japanese language? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) I can't communicate with Japanese.
(2) I can't read Japanese writing or written correspondence. (3) I can't write Japanese.
(4) I can't read notices or bulletin boards. (5) I have no chance to learn Japanese.
[VI] About your occupation
1. Are you working now? (Please indicate the option that applies to you.)
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If yes, please answer the following "2". If no, or if you worked before but presently you are not working, please answer the following "3".
2. Please choose one that applies to your presently working position. (1) Owner or director
(2) Full time worker (3) Part time worker
(4) Independent business or family employee of an independent business (5) Other
3. Do you have any trouble concerning your job? (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
(1) It is difficult to find work.
(2) It is difficult to find full time work. (3) Pay / wages are low.
(4) My working hours are extended.
(5) My treatment is different from that of Japanese (co)workers
(6) The company fails to observe the law (no premium wages for overtime work, no paid vacation, not unionized to any social insurance, etc.)
(7) There is no place to take counsel. (8) Other
(9) I don't have any trouble.
[VII] Child rearing and education
1. Do you have a child or children or did you rear your child or children previously in Tachikawa City? (Please indicate the option that applies to you.)
(1) Yes. (2) No.
If yes, please answer the following "2 to 5". If no, please go to the following "VIII".
2. What kind of information is needed for child rearing in Japan? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) A place where consultation is made available concerning childcare matters (2)An opportunity for social exchange with other parents
(3) A daycare or kindergarten for working parents
(4) Guidelines for entry procedures for kindergarten / early childcare schools (5) Pediatrics where a native language can be utilized
(6) Information concerning immunization and medical exams (7) Neighborhood shops that sells child rearing and children's goods (8) Other
(9) There is nothing in particular.
3. Which school corresponds to your child’s age (i.e., elementary or middle school age) (Please indicate all options that apply to you.)
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(3) International school (4) Correspondence course
(5) Home study (I do not send my child to school) (6) Other
(7) My child has not reached school age.
4. What is / are (was / were) your anxiety regarding raising a child or children in Japan? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Insufficient Japanese language ability
(2) He / she is unhappy living a Japanese lifestyle. (3) Bullying
(4) It is difficult for him / her to make friends.
(5) He / she cannot understand the contents of school lessons. (6) Tuition is expensive.
(7) Does his / her nationality become disadvantageous when he / she goes to the next stage of education? i.e., abuse of civil rights?
(8) He / she cannot understand the school events and / or school system. (9) Other matters.
(10) There is no cause for concern.
5. Do you have any request to the Japanese elementary / middle school authorities? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) Study of language and culture of the mother country (2) Japanese study opportunity
(3) Enhancement of native language speaking assistant (4) Study of the cultures of different countries and regions
(5) Enhancement of guidance and council to go to the next stage of education or to find employment
(6) Higher degree of multicultural awareness among school staff (7) Higher degree of multicultural awareness among guardians
(8) Greater degree of cultural or social interaction between staff and local foreign-born residents
(9) The school lunch catering to various gastronomic cultures (10) Other
(11) There is no specific request.
[VIII] Medical treatment and hospitals
1. Did you feel any cause for alarm? (1) Yes (2) No
2. What is presently troublesome about hospital visits and / or seeking medical treatment? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
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(2) I don't know the hospital where my native language can be utilized and understood.
(3) There is little information regarding the public medical insurance. (4) I am unable to join the health insurance.
(5) It is hard to communicate in medical institutions such as hospitals or pharmacies. (6) It is difficult to understand the Japanese medical system.
(7) The indication of over-the-counter medicine etc. is hard to understand. (8) Medical examination is refused in a hospital or hospitals
(9) Medical expenses are high. (10) Other.
(11) There is no cause for concern.
[IX] Your residence
1. Did you feel any cause for concern? (1) Yes (2) No
2. Do you have any trouble concerning your place of residence? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) House rent and prices are too high.
(2) The custom of deposits and rewards for landlords. (3) It is hard to find a guarantor.
(4) Unjust treatment of non-Japanese tenants. (5) Furnishings are lacking or of poor quality. (6) It is far from a place of work or a school. (7) Local residents are unkind.
(8) Other
(9) There is no cause for concern.
[X] Consultation for troubles and / or availability of counseling
1. Did you feel any cause for alarm? (1) Yes (2) No
2. What is troubling with matters of seeking counsel? (Please indicate up to three applicable options.)
(1) I don't know whom and where I can consult with. (2) I don't know the place of special consultation.
(3) Although I would like to seek consultation, language barriers make communication difficult.
(4) Charges / fees are high although I would like to consult. (5) I am worried whether privacy is protected.
(6) Other
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1. How would you rate your degree of well-being?
(1) 100％ (2) 90％ (3) 80％ (4) 70％ (5) 60％ (6) 50％ (7) 40％ (8) 30％ (9) 20％ (10) 10％ (11) 0％
[XII] Other
1. If you have any specific comments or opinions, relating to any of the above or separate matters, please do not hesitate to note below.
