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We chose two major nationwide newspapers in Japan; one of which is the Yomiuri Shimbun, which has around 10 million circulations and the right-of-center opinion and the other is Asahi Shimbun, which has around 8 million circulations and the left-of-center opinion. Both of these papers are quality papers and have a strong influence on Japanese public opinion.
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Nobunaga Oda is one of the most influential feudatories in the 16th century in Japan and Ieyasu Tokugawa is the founder of the feudal government from the 17th to the 19th century. Ryoma Sakamoto was one of the central figures of the Meiji Restoration and he became a nationwide hero after his death, although he did not have any strong political power in his lifetime.
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In the elder group, there are 5 members and 2 were born in 1920s, another 2 were born in 1920s and the other one was in 1950s.
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An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the 7th Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, July, 2007. We gratefully acknowledge Dr. James Liu for his assistance in checking the manuscript in English, a second language of the authors, and for his fruitful suggestions on the earlier version of this chapter. All authors participated in the data collection and analyses. The first and second authors coordinated each piece of results and led discussions among all authors. The first author combined the whole sets of analyses and wrote the draft with the second author who was in charge especially for the empirical data. Finally, this work was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B); No.19730503 for the second author).
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Atsumi, T., Suwa, K. (2009). Toward Reconciliation of Historical Conflict Between Japan and China: Design Science for Peace in Asia. In: Noor, N., Montiel, C. (eds) Peace Psychology in Asia. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0143-9_13
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