Nearly 60 percent of people are in favor of introducing a daylight savings time program in Japan, according to a government survey.
The results mark the second time a majority of citizens surveyed have supported changing the clock with the seasons -- as long as certain conditions are met.
The survey -- released Thursday -- questioned 2,000 adults in November and found that awareness of the issue had risen from a year earlier, with 55 percent of those polled reporting they were familiar with the issue.
It also found that 13 percent of respondents said they were in favor of daylight savings and another 46 percent said they would support it if certain conditions were met.
The conditions include answers to problems that have yet to be sufficiently addressed, such as coordinating public and private transportation schedules and labor-related concerns.
The percentage of those opposed to the idea dropped to 20 percent, 5 points less than a year before.