世論 What Japan Thinks

With the worries about “stranger danger” in Japan far outweighing the reality of the situation, japan.internet.com reported on a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research on the topic of children and mobile phones.

Demographics

On the 6th of June 2007 JR Tokai Express Research received 330 successfully-completed questionnaires from members of its internet monitor group aged between 30 and 59. 73.0% of the sample was female, 49.1% in their thirties, 33.9% in their forties, and 17.0% in their fifties.

Some of the proposed systems for tracking children are in my opinion worse than the original problem and are robbing children of their childhood.

Research results

From the sample 157 people had children in elementary or middle school, the main target for the children’s mobile phone market. This group was asked the following question:

Q1: Does your elementary or middle-school child (children) carry a child-targeted mobile phone? (Sample size=157)

Yes (to SQs)	9.6%
No	90.4%

Q1SQ1: Which child-targeted mobile phone does your child or children carry? (Sample size=15)

	Votes	Percentage
Kids Keitai (DoCoMo)	7	46.7%
Junior Keitai (au)	6	40.0%
Anshin da-fon (WILLCOM)	2	13.3%
Kodomo Mobile (SoftBank)	0	0.0%
Don’t know	0	0.0%
Other	1	6.7%

Q1SQ2: Has your child used the anti-crime buzzer, mail alerts of buzzer sounding, etc, features on their child-targeted mobile phone? (Sample size=15)

Yes, just one of them	6.7%
Yes, many of them	13.3%
Yes, all of them	0.0%
No	73.3%
Other	6.7%

Q1SQ3: Do you think infirm and old people could also use child-targeted mobiles? (Sample size=15)

Yes, definitely needed	46.7%
Yes, would be better to have it	53.3%
No, not needed	0.0%
Don’t know	0.0%