世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s another interesting ranking survey from goo Ranking, this time on what aspects of city living has one come to expect.

Demographics

Bewteen the 22nd and 25th of January 2008 1,126 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.4% of the sample was female, 3.6% in their teens, 15.8% in their twenties, 35.1% in their thirties, 27.3% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 7.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Full trains is still the one that gets me, and forces me to get up about an hour earlier than I really want to. I actually changed the line I commute on because of just one too many incidents of being squeezed into an already over-full train. My employer offers work from home, but I cannot take that up as I doubt if I’d get much work done! When I first moved to the big city in Scotland the one thing I noticed the most was that it was a bit dodgy to walk home at night, but fortunately such worries are not present in Japan.

Photo by Atari, Gracinha & Marco.

Ranking results

Q: What aspects of city living have you come to expect?

Rank		Score
1	Full trains	100
2	Trains coming every few minutes	96.2
3	Even in the middle of the night lots of people milling around	77.9
4	24 hour supermarkets	73.9
5	Not knowing the neighbours	56.5
6	Buying mineral water	49.4
7	Living in an apartment	49.2
8	Lots of foreigners	48.2
9	Lots of television channels	47.0
10	Only exchange greetings with people I know	46.6
11	Schoolgirls with makeup	45.3
12	No wild dogs	45.3
13	Over an hour spent commuting	42.5
14	Lots of events	40.1
15	Eating out is the norm	32.6
16	Lots of people but no-one to date	32.2
17	Seeing television crews	30.0
18	No rush to get married	25.5
19	Street parkers soon get ticketed	24.3
20	Everyone speaks standard Japanese (or Osaka dialect for Osaka residents)	18.8