Аннотация:Thoughts for natural environments should be decided by
many factors. Therefore, knowing what residents in other
countries think about the natural environment can be very
useful for understanding each other’s countries comprehensively.
However, it seems to be rear that studies discussed
and arranged about the causes from a quantitative point
of view, which would bring the commonalities or differences,
after having clarified commonalities and differences in
way of thinking. Within this context, we conducted several
experiments to investigate Japanese and Russian attitudes
toward the natural environment. The purpose of this study
was to clarify the commonalities and differences in environmental
attitudes between residents of the two countries at
specific research sites. We then discuss potential causes for
these commonalities and differences through comparing
data from both countries. The results suggest that Russian respondents (especially
women and the elderly) are highly interested in the natural
environment and attempt to adjust their own lives to
the natural environment more than Japanese respondents.
Thus, Russian respondents were more highly orientated
toward human and environmental symbiosis than Japanese
respondents. It was also interesting that there was no statistically
significant difference in any indicator of environmental
attitude in the domestic comparison, such as Moscow
– Irkutsk and Hokkaido – Chiba. In others words, these
study findings suggest that there may be specific cultural
factors that are stronger between respondents from different
nationalities compared to the strength of such factors
among respondents from the same nationality.