A propos questions asking about pollsters asking about suki na kuni,kirainakuni. (countries you like and those you don't like.) I've since talked to my friend who used to be in charge of the kokuminseichosa, and taught at Jochi. One day a kindly Jesuit priest colleague told him that putting such a question in a questionnaire was -- uncharitable? likely to cause unnnecessary ill-will? an invitation to racism?
poitically incorrect? --- don't know precisely what the argument was, but anyway he dropped it from the next round. Maybe that's Japan's problem, Happo-bijin while actually sleeping only with the United States.
(八方美人　a woman who looks beautiful from every point in the compass.)

Ronald Dore