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Instructions: Sports excludes activities involving only watching, or practiced as lessons or class work and includes club activities within or outside school. Hobbies and amusements excludes activities done as a lesson, work or household work and includes club activities within or outside school. Please answer all items even if you did not spend a single day on these activities.

1. How many days over the year did you play these sports or engage in these hobbies or amusements?

Sports:

• Baseball (including playing catch)
• Softball
• Volleyball
• Basketball
• Soccer (including futsal)
• Table tennis
• Tennis
• Badminton
• Golf (including golf practice range)
• Judo
• Japanese fencing (Kendo)
• Gate ball
• Bowling
• Fishing
• Swimming
• Skiing, snowboarding
• Mountain climbing or hiking
• Cycling
• Jogging, marathon
• Walking or light physical exercise
• Training with gym equipment

Hobbies and Amusements:

• Watching sports games (Excluding TVsmartphonePC, etc.)
• Watching works of art (Excluding TVsmartphonePC, etc.)
• Watching vaudevilles, plays and dances (Excluding TVsmartphonePC, etc.)
• Watching movies at a movie theater
• Watching movies other than at a movie theater (TV, DVD, PC, etc.)
• Going to classical music concerts
• Going to popular music concerts
• Listening to music on CD or smartphone, etc.
• Playing musical instruments
• Traditional Japanese music (including folk song, and traditional Japanese music)
• Chorus or vocal music
• “Karaoke”
• Japanese dancing
• Western dancing or social dancing
• Calligraphy
• Japanese flower arrangement
• Japanese tea ceremony
• Dress making sewing
• Knitting or embroidering
• Cooking or making cakes, cookies as hobbies
• Gardening
• Do-it-yourself carpentry
• Painting carving
• Ceramic art or industrial arts
• Photographing and printing
• Writing poems, Japanese poems, “haiku”, or novels, etc.
• Reading books as hobbies
• The game of “go”
• The game of Japanese chess, “shogi”
• Playing “pachinko”
• Playing TV game or PC game (include use of portable game machines)
• Visiting recreation ground, zoo, arboretum, or aquarium, etc.
• Camping

Response Options:
None at all - 0
1 to 4 days - 1
5 to 9 days - 2
10 to 19 days (1 day a month) - 3
20 to 39 days (2 or 3 days a month) - 4
40 to 99 days (1 day a week) - 5
100 to 199 days (2 to 3 days a week) - 6
200 days or more (4 days or more a week) - 7
Do now know how many days - 8