Pregnancy testing kits cannot be sold on Japanese internet
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Here’s one of these surveys which teaches me something new about Japan; this time it was a survey from Research Plus, reported on by japan.internet.com, into selling medical goods over the internet.
Demographics
On the 5th of December 2008 300 members of the Research Plus monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, 16.3% in their twenties, 38.0% in their thirties, 29.7% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 2.7% in their sixties.
In September of this year it was decided that from 2009 it will be possible to buy over the internet such over-the-counter medicines as anti-flatulence pills and vitamins, but as can be seen in Q2SQ, a lot of other seemingly innocent drugs are still not sellable.
Research results
Q1: Did you know that there were regulations about what medicines can be sold over the internet? (Sample size=300)
Yes 46.3% No 53.7% Q2: Do you think that there should be regulations about what medicines can be sold over the internet? (Sample size=300)
Yes (to SQ) 76.0% No 24.0% Q2SQ: Which of the following medicines should be sold over the internet? (Sample size=228, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Athlete’s foot medicine 143 62.7% Pregnancy test kit 139 61.0% Stomach medicine 101 44.3% Cold medicine 99 43.4% Chinese medicine 97 42.5% Painkillers 60 26.3% Other 26 11.4%
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