世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s my first ranking survey from goo Ranking, one on last month’s most popular disease name (or disease-related) search keywords. Regular readers will be familiar with goo Research, in my opinion the highest quality research company whose output I translate, but here goo Ranking’s data comes in this case from their own search engine’s statistics, or in other cases from public web polls, so the figures should be taken with a pinch of salt. Regardless, they still provide an interesting snapshot of the typical goo user.

Rank	Last month	Disease (日本語)	Disease (English)
1	2	糖尿病	Diabetes
2	3	ヘルペス	Herpes
3	8	高血圧	High blood pressure
4	4	便秘	Constipation
5	-	口腔ケアと歯周病	Oral care and periodontitis
6	11	アレルギー	Allergy
7	17	花粉症	Hay fever
8	7	甲状腺	Thyroid
9	10	膠原病	Collagen disease
10	9	腰痛	Lumbago
11	5	痔	Piles, hemorrhoids
12	6	骨折	Broken bones
13	12	めまい	Vertigo
14	18	リウマチ	Rheumatism
15	14	頭痛	Headache
16	13	ヘルニア	Hernia
17	20	帯状疱疹	Shingles, herpes zoster
18	15	肩こり	Stiff shoulders
19	48	爪白癬（爪の水虫）	Nail ringworm
20	21	口内炎	Mouth ulcers, stomatitis

I notice that rather appropriately constipation hasn’t moved.

I’ve had five of them since I came to Japan; I’ll leave it to your imagination as to which of them they were!