About the Authors

Tetsuya Matsubayashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Michiko Ueda

matsubayashi@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

Michiko Ueda

Contributed equally to this work with: Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Michiko Ueda

Affiliation Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

Sumitomo Life Insurance is a commercial funder. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No employee of Sumitomo Life Insurance was involved in this study.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: TM MU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM MU. Wrote the paper: TM MU.