世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Rankings published another one of their silly yet slightly unsettling polls recently, when they looked at what things are impossible to do now that they are an adult. The original Japanese version is phrased to have a suggestion of regret, I feel. The survey was conducted between the 18th and 20th of December last year.

I can’t really imagine the thought processes that are required to make hopping in the bath with their parents the second most notable thing that adults cannot do.

Q: What did you do as a child, but just can’t do any more?

Rank	Action	Score
1	Believe in Santa Claus	100
2	Get in the bath with parents	97.3
3	Wear thin clothing in winter	94.6
4	Eat the fruit or nectar of plants by the roadside	84.6
5	Handle insects	77.6
6	Hold hands with parents	76.5
7	Play under the blazing sun	75.3
8	Have a cute hairstyle (pony tail, braids, pudding bowl, etc)	75.3
9	50 metre dash	71.3
10	Do a backward roll on a bar	65.4
11	Remember things	61.3
12	Remember numeric date mnemonics	57.7
13	Play in water or mud	53.2
14	Have a real ding-dong argument	46.6
15	Dream of being a hero or heroine	45.5
16	Pester or cajole	42.8
17	Kanji	38.7
18	Cry in front of people	38.5
19	Express things freely (eg, at play)	37.6
20	Calculations, mental arithmetic	34.8