This paper is the report on conditioning factors of Japanese students' sensibility to the Constitution based on the data collected from an attitude survey of the author's students at Saga University and Nagasaki Junior College of Shipbuilding. The results are: -
1. Even in the beginning of college life, that is, before their learning of the Constitution, the students show more or less sensibility to the Constitution though they are blunter than the average students in all over Japan especially in Tokyo. Causes of this fact are supposedly due mainly to mass communication, which may be fraudulent by the control of the ruling class, and other factors including family situation, school educatlon, particular characteristics of locality. The latter group of the factors includes feudalistic climate of local villages which has vital influences upon sensibility to the Tenno system, experience of poverty upon that to rights of existence residence in a strategic area of Kyushu, which lies near Korea and holds two U. S. millitary bases, upon that to unconstitutionality of their establishment in Japan, frequent disasters and financial difficulties in those areas upon that to the Self-defense Forces, which may give their service free to relieve disasters, and so on. 2. The learning of natural science as well as the Constitution and social sciences makes students more sensible to the Constitution. This shows that reasonable knowledge of scientific thinking is effective in improving the sensibility. 3. Student movement are another remarkable conditioning factor of the sensibility, judging from the fact that those, who have experienced anti-U. S.-Japan Security Treaty demonstration and participated in the counter action to the bill of the University Management Law, have sharper sensibility to constitutional human rights and renunciation of war. 4. Class interests have somthing to do with sensibility to the Constitution, since they are understood as influential factors on the fact that some of the students of Nagasaki Junior Colledge of Shipbuilding are more sensible to the Constitution even before the learning of the Constitution than others who have already got acquainted with the constitutional principles.
Thus the author concludes that reasonable knowledge of scientific thinking and the student movements against unconstitutional policy set forth by the goverment are the most influencial among factors conditioning sensibility to the Constitution and that converses are also true.
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