世論 What Japan Thinks

In their 72nd Ranking Research questionnaire, DIMSDRIVE Research took a look at what Japanese people said they did before they went to sleep. They interviewed 5,298 people from their internet monitor group, 50.3% male, about their habits at the end of March this year.

You will notice that no-one mentions interacting with one’s partner, even just a cuddle or a chat, as what they do when they can’t sleep. Whether this is an uncommon practice or if this and more saucy answers were weeded out, I do not know.

Q: Usually, when you get into bed or under your futon, what do you do before you fall asleep? (Sample size=5,298)

Rank	Action	Votes
1	Nothing or soon fall asleep	1,235
2	Read	901
3	Watch TV or DVD	582
4	Think	296
5	Internet, mail	261
6	Scheduling	229
7	Listen to music	162
8	Listen to radio	129
9	Confirm tasks for tomorrow	77
10	Stretch or massage	71

Q: Usually, when you get into bed or under your futon, what do you do before you fall asleep? (Sample size=5,298, by sex)

Rank	Action	Male votes N=2,665	Action	Female votes N=2,663
1	Nothing or soon fall asleep	741	Read	542
2	Read	359	Nothing or soon fall asleep	494
3	Watch TV or DVD	303	Watch TV or DVD	279
4	Think	130	Internet, mail	200
5	Scheduling	103	Think	166
6	Listen to radio	82	Scheduling	126
7	Listen to music	75	Listen to music	87
8	Internet, mail	61	Confirm tasks for tomorrow	51
9	Close eyes	35	Stretch or massage	51
10	Review the past day	31	Listen to radio	47

Looking at the detailed breakdown by age for interesting activities, a few of the younger women did report “conversation” as an activity, but given the rest of the answers, I suspect this may very well be via phone calls than with a real live human being beside them.