Japan: perceived trustworthiness of internet as a source of information 2021

The share of people in Japan who think that the internet offers trustworthy information amounted to 28.2 percent in fiscal year 2021. Except for fiscal year 2016, the internet was trusted as a source of information by less than one third of survey respondents in the recent years.

Share of people who think that the internet offers trustworthy information in Japan from fiscal year 2012 to 2021

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

November 30 to December 6, 2021*

Number of respondents

1,500 respondents

Age group

13-69 years

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

*The source counts the answers of the survey conducted from November to December 2021 as figures for fiscal year 2021. Figures for previous years are based on earlier surveys, each with a sample size of 1,500 respondents.
Data prior to fiscal year 2020 come from previous reporting.

Respondents were asked to which degree the internet offered information that can be trusted. There were five possible answers: "One can trust all of it", "One can trust most of it", "About half and half", "One can only trust a part of it", "One cannot not trust it at all". The values shown in this statistic represent the combined share of respondents who answered either "One can trust all of it" or "One can trust most of it".

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