June 23, 2023 Release of FY2022 Survey Report on Usage Time of Information and Communications Media and Information Behavior

The Institute for Information and Communications Policy (IICP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) surveyed the usage time of information and communications media and information behavior for FY2022 as joint research with Professor HASHIMOTO Yoshiaki at the School of Arts and Science, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, and others. IICP recently completed a survey report.

1. Background and purpose

This survey targets Internet media, including social media, as well as information and communications media, such as television and radio, and continuously grasps the length, time zone, usage rate, and reliability of such media. The survey intends to clarify the relationships between all media types, including media other than information and communication media, such as newspapers and magazines, and changes in usage conditions. This survey has been conducted annually since 2012 in collaboration with Professor HASHIMOTO Yoshiaki at the School of Arts and Science, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, and others* (this is the eleventh survey).

* KITAMURA Satoshi, professor, Faculty of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University and KAWAI Daisuke, Project Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research (CIDIR) Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III), the University of Tokyo.

*The published material is in Japanese only.