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How Many Japanese Adults Say No One Is Very Close To Them?

The world's largest study of how people's lives are going asked more than 200,000 adults in 22 countries whether there is one special person they feel very close to. Guess Japan's answer, then see how it compares.

By Samuel W. Bennett · Nov. 8, 2026

Read the full storyOne In Three Japanese Adults Say There's No One They Feel Very Close To, More Than Twice The U.S. Share

Method and data

Data: Global Flourishing Study, Wave 1 open data (Center for Open Science), collected April 2022 to December 2023 and weighted with the study's survey weights. The share is people who said there is no one special person they feel very close to and can confide in.

Your guess: stored anonymously (the game, the number and the time, nothing about you) so we can show how all readers guessed. The answer and chart come from the data above, not from your guess.

How this was made: AI helped write the code for this page. I chose the question, pulled the data and checked every number against the source.