世論 What Japan Thinks

This was the question posed by goo Ranking, to see what people would want to do if they had 100 million yen in banknotes.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 23rd of November 2008 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.4% of the sample were female, 9.0% in their teens, 15.7% in their twenties, 29.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 11.3% in their fifties, and 9.4% 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 the money bath; I’m surprised “light cigarettes with it” didn’t feature, though, as that’s another popular image of having money to burn. I’m not sure why slapping someone in the face appears so high in the ratings, however. Does anyone recognise the reference in Japanese popular culture?

Ranking result

Q: If you had 100 million yen in notes, what would you want to do? (Sample size=1,083)

Rank		Votes
1	Buy something for over 10 million yen in cash	100
2	Verify there’s 10,000 10,000 yen bills	55.9
3	Weigh them	33.4
4	Slap someone in the face with a wad of notes	28.8
5	Sleep on a bed of notes	26.0
6	See if they could all fit in my wallet	25.5
7	Make a tower of notes	20.9
8	Play dominos with wads	17.6
9	Line them up at the bottom of a drawer	17.1
10	Weigh down the lid of a pot noodle	13.8
11	Have a bath in it	8.7
12	Enjoy the sound of them falling on the floor	6.6
13	Change it for 100 million one yen coins	5.9
14	Leave a trail of notes every 20 metres	4.8
15	Wipe my brow with it	3.3
16	Use it to weigh down the bottom of a wardrobe	3.1
17	Create a long flick-book animation	2.6
18	Wipe my bum with it	1.8
19=	Use as memo pad	1.5
19=	Make a money dress	1.5