Young generation Nikkei "Awareness of Nikkei" Many people strongly feel September 1 7:37
A survey of Nikkei people living in the United States and Brazil found that 74% of the younger generation said they strongly felt their identity as Nikkei.
Experts who participated in the survey said, "It seems that they want to have something like Japanese traditional values."
This awareness survey was conducted last year by the Nippon Foundation, targeting Japanese-Americans living in various parts of the world online, and received approximately 3,800 responses.
According to this, 74% of respondents answered that they were “strong” when asked about “how much they feel their identity as Nikkei” between the ages of 18 and 35, and the average was 19 %, "low" was 7%.
As for the question "how much do you feel connected to Japan?", "strong" was 48% and "reasonable" was 31%, while "low" was 21%.
About the results of this survey, Curtis Takada Lux of the American American National Museum in Los Angeles, who participated in the survey in the United States, said, ``From the feeling that older generations of Japanese Americans have been discriminated against, we have a relationship with Japan. Sometimes they didn't, but the younger generation hasn't inherited that fear, but rather the younger generation wants to have something more like traditional Japanese values." I am analyzing.