世論 What Japan Thinks

With お歳暮, oseibo, the end of year gift-giving season upon us, perhaps you need to send a present to someone and don’t know what is best? Not to worry, goo Rankings recently published the top 30 edible Oseibo gifts people would be happy to receive. As usual, we just have a ranking as a relative number of votes for each gift.

Q: What Oseibo gift would you be happy to receive?

Rank	Gift	Score
1	Ham or sausage	100
2	Japanese beef	81.3
3	Crab	78.0
4	Western-style sweets	76.6
5	Beer	61.8
6	Coffee	61.8
7	Herring roe, salmon roe	48.5
8	Fruit	46.6
9	Japanese sweets	44.3
10	Ice cream	42.9
11	Wine	42.2
12	Noodles (udon, soba, ramen, etc)	41.7
13	Canned goods	40.3
14	Fruit juice	38.9
15	Rice	34.7
16	Cooking oil	31.6
17	Meat: non-Japanese beef, chicken, pork, lamb, etc	29.7
18	Black tea	29.5
19	Seasoning	27.6
20	Sake	26.7
21	Shochu (Japanese spirits)	26.2
22	Salted salmon	25.3
23	Japanese tea	23.9
24	Delicacies, special products	23.7
25	Seaweed	18.7
26	Dried foods: bonito, shiitake, etc	18.3
27	Food boiled in soy sauce	18.0
28	Western spirits: brandy, whisky, wine, etc	15.2
29	Mochi (rice gluten)	15.0
30	Pickled vegetables	14.3