What Japan has just too much of recently
This is a fun wee survey for your Sunday entertainment from goo Ranking, this time looking at what people think there might just be too much of these days.
Demographics
Between the 23rd and 25th of June 2008 1,014 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.1% of the sample were male, 6.5% in their teens, 14.5% in their twenties, 31.0% in their thirties, 28.1% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 8.8% 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.
I’d have to go with idiot celebrities myself, with number 4, quiz programmes packed with usually the same idiot celebrities. Pictured above are six professional idiots from the Hexagon quiz show, a show which has spawned almost as many groups as Morning Musume has.
Most of the idiots ham up their stupidness, and the quiz shows are sometimes (usually?) fixed so they can be even more entertainingly thick.
Ranking result
Q: What do you think there is just too much of these days? (Sample size=1,014)
Rank Score 1 Idiot celebrities 100 2 New features on mobile phones that don’t get used 86.6 3 Celebrity politicians 80.2 4 Quiz programmes packed with celebrities 68.5 5 Membership, store cards having credit functions 54.1 6 People playing mobile games in trains 50.9 7 Subtitles on television shows 32.5 8 Legendary Pokemon 30.9 9 Regional character items 29.5 10 Regional airports 29.5 11 Electronic money 28.1 12 Blog comment spam 28.1 13 Rambling news items 22.8 14 Third-sector beer (made from peas, beans, etc) 22.0 15 Number of megapixels on compact digital cameras 19.6 16 Shops labelled as the “Originator of Something or Other” 18.8 17 SNSs with exclusive functions as unique selling points 18.2 18 Dentists 15.8 19 Spam mail with sensible subject lines 14.8 20 Convenience stores 12.6
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feitclub said,
August 4, 2008 @ 00:08
Too many dentists!? There’s no such thing is this country. I have some serious issues with a few people I work with because their mouths are black holes of suffering and despair. It’s hard for me to look at them while they talk as a result. They haven’t seen a dentist is a long time, obviously.
What do you make of numbers 17 and 19? I don’t get what that’s supposed to mean.
Nick Ramsay said,
August 4, 2008 @ 00:40
I couldn’t agree more with No.1, especially cross-dressing celebs. Here are few more I’d like to add:
Too many insects
Too much hayfever
Too many degrees this summer
Overuse of the word “eco”
Too many people on holiday at the same time…
www.japansoc.com said,
August 4, 2008 @ 00:47
Japan’s Too Many, Too Much List…
A recent Goo survey asks the question, What do you think Japan has too much of these days? It’s good to see the Japanese are well aware of their own flaws. I added a few of my own answers to the list, but what else would you add?…
Ken Y-N said,
August 4, 2008 @ 00:50
feitclub: There’s more dentists that convenience stores here! Can’t really help you on 19, but perhaps it means they now have Japanese subject lines? For 17, perhaps it’s just too many SNSs full stop?
モルヒネ said,
August 4, 2008 @ 03:52
No. 8 should be “Legendary Pokemon”. Google for more info
Alex said,
August 4, 2008 @ 09:16
6. Playing mobile games on trains…
I don’t understand why people are so strict about what others do on trains, especially when the person is using headphones. I mean, where does it end? Could I object to the color of clothes that a middle-aged woman was wearing because it offends my eyes? “You shouldn’t wear red on trains. It makes me angry as a bull.”
Janne said,
August 4, 2008 @ 10:23
feitclub: it’s a generational thing, dentistry. People of a certain age did not have access to inexpensive, good dentistry while young and that shows - tragically so in some cases. I think the sentiment is rather that there’s more dentists than the market really can bear today, precisely because dental health and preventative treatments has improved so much lately.
“sensible spam subject lines” refers, I think, simply to spam that too like real mail messages and thus aren’t caught by filters, nor by the users who open it thinking it’s a real message.
ジェイソン (Jason) said,
August 4, 2008 @ 14:27
Japan has too many:
* hours in the working day
* people taking the subway at 2 pm
* convenience stores
* men dressed as women or something inbetween
* surveys
Well … there’s my 2 Yen into the matter
I also completely agree with Nick’s comment about “Eco”. I just saw someone selling “Eco-Friendly Water” the other day and I just about lost it. Until I saw the sticker price: 210 Yen in a vending machine. It’s time I buy a few vending machines myself….
whitney said,
August 9, 2008 @ 06:44
#18 “Dentists” made me laugh. My wife and I have a running joke where I always point out every sign for a dentist when I’m in Japan visiting her family. She says she’d never noticed it till I pointed it out, but there are dentist offices everywhere and advertisements for dentists any place where there isn’t a dentist office. I’m not sure if that’s because Japanese go to the dentist more often than Americans, Japanese dentist offices are really small or American dentists don’t advertise their business as well as their Japanese counterparts.
Nick Ramsay said,
August 9, 2008 @ 08:23
Funny you should mention that, whitney. The last time I went to the dentist, he kept scheduling me to go back every week for seven weeks in succession! In that time I think I had 3 checkups, 2 cleaning and “fitting” for filling sessions, and of course, 2 fillings.
Piku said,
October 17, 2008 @ 07:13
Hey, don’t be hating on the men that look like girls. They rule. Haha
America has too many stupid celebrities too.
I could name a few, but we all know them anyways.
Heehee. Legendary Pokemon. I agree with that one. Pokemon is general is getting really old.