Around one in four Japanese children at preschool age played with cards. In a 2022 survey, around 25 percent of mothers stated that their child regularly played card games using a standard deck of cards or trading cards
Share of children playing card games in Japan from 1995 to 2022
figures are based on surveys conducted every five years*; playing cards include decks of cards and trading card games
Supplementary notes
*The survey was conducted in February or March of each stated year. Figures were calculated based on the response of mothers with children aged one year and six months to six years, living in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama).
The 2022 survey was conducted online, while previous iterations were postal questionnaires. The number of respondents for each iteration was as followed:
1995: n=1,659
2000: n=1,570
2005: n=2,258
2010: n=2,839
2015: n=3,287
2022: n=3,410
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Benesse Educational Research and Development Institute. (January 17, 2023). Share of children playing card games in Japan from 1995 to 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1421955/japan-share-children-play-card/
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