世論 What Japan Thinks

Since the Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdown, one of the problems occuring has been the worries about radioactive particles in the tap water (I’d argue that the worries exceed the actual danger), so it was interesting to see this survey from iShare into drinking water for infants.

Demographics

On the 13th of June 2011 576 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 63.9% of the sample were female, 11.8% in their twenties, 80.6% in their thirties, and 7.6% in their forties. All of the sample lived in Tokyo prefecture and had bought mineral water for infants.

The one or two times I’ve been in Tokyo, however, I don’t think I’ve actually drunk the water, so I cannot say how nice or otherwise it is.

In Q7SQ, I never knew there was a recommended water for formula milk! Soft water is apparently the correct answer, and most of the water in Japan is soft. Q10 and Q10SQ shows just over three in four women with infants worry about Fukushima fallout in their water – do is that a larger or smaller percentage than you would imagine?

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Since the Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdown, one of the problems occuring has been the worries about radioactive particles in the tap water (I’d argue that the worries exceed the actual danger), so it was interesting to see this survey from iShare into drinking water for infants.

Demographics

On the 13th of June 2011 576 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 63.9% of the sample were female, 11.8% in their twenties, 80.6% in their thirties, and 7.6% in their forties. All of the sample lived in Tokyo prefecture and had bought mineral water for infants.

For Q2, people were asked why they had stocked up on water since the earthquake, some of the more common answers were that they wanted to have a supply if the tap water became contaminated, they don’t want their children to drink tap water, they stocked up just in case, and domestic water is safer than imported brands. That final option does seem a bit odd to me.
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Since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster on March 11th, even people outside the immediate disaster area have felt aftershocks in their daily life. This survey from iShare looked at how one’s lifestyle has changed post-earthquake.

Demographics

Over the 9th and 10th of June 2011 1,223 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.3% of the sample were male, 9.3% in their twenties, 45.5% in their thirties, and 45.1% in their forties. All of the sample lived in either Tokyo, Osaka, or Aichi (Nagoya area) prefecture.

I don’t think I’ve really done anything special since the earthquake, bar buying a new fan, but that was more due to the general high price of electricity bills than due to any specific awareness of reducing power consumption as requested by the local electricity board.
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This recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into online automatic translation services found Google on top in both usage and satisfaction, a quite amazing change from just a year ago when Google was nowhere to be seen.

Demographics

Between the 8th and 12th of June 2011 1,082 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I must agree that Google does produce the best results, but Japanese to English is always a tricky task due in no small part to subjects or objects often being dropped from sentences, the present and future tenses being identical, singular versus plural often not distinguished, etc, etc. As Google Translate says japan.internet.com (or is that comb the Internet?) summed up:

Not rely on automated translation is fairly but not all, at least you go up enough to understand the accuracy of the translation summary, Soredake, would do less well in the language barrier.
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Here’s a curious survey from goo Ranking, looking at how guys with sisters tend to be.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of April 2011 1,110 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 27.4% in their thirties, 26.4% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 9.9% 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 have a sister, but I don’t really recognise much of the list as being a result of having a sister.
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As it was Fathers Day last Sunday this survey from iShare looked at images of modern-day fathers.

Demographics

Between the 30th of May and the 1st of June 2011 1,343 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-base questionnaire. All of the sample was married, 50.1% of the sample were female, 3.4% in their twenties, 41.7% in their thirties, and 54.9% in their forties.

This survey looked at a new word to me, イケダン, ikedan. The word is a combination of イケる, ikeru, hip or trendy (with a hint of being attractive to the opposite sex) and だんな, danna, husband. It’s a play on イケメン, ikemen, cool guy with a hint of availability.

There’s an ikedan web site, which has the five mottos of an ikedan, namely “Be elegant”, “Live strong”, “Don’t forget to be gentle”, “No excuses”, and “Do things in moderation”. This survey listed the characteristics as “Keeping family important while working hard”, “Don’t hesitate to lend the wife a hand even when busy”, “look cool on the outside too”, and “Not skimping on fashion”, taken from Ikedan Japan web site, which is some kind of Nissan promotion.

Doesn’t look like my style; I’d rather aspire to be a choi-waru oyaji myself!
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With news of LulzSec and other hackers making off with passwords, and other attacks based around people’s GMail accounts, this recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into email passwords is rather timely. Note that I have previously translated an older survey into passwords.

Demographics

Over the 31st of May and the 1st of June 2011 1,077 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 17.0% in their teens, 17.7% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 16.1% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.

I have absolutely no idea what my email passwords are! My Gmail ones are 20 characters long and randomly generated and managed by KeePass (fiddly to get the hang of, but this is a good tutorial) and my ISP one is the one they supplied, a 10 character mixed case alphanumeric one. My wife, without any training from me, keeps her in text files and uses a different one for each site, at least 8 characters long and a mix of usually names and semi-random numbers. Not the best of security, but at least she varies on every site, which in practise might actually provide more overall security than one big long one used everywhere.
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japan.internet.com recently reported on the result of goo Research’s 28th regular survey into mobile phone users computer use.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 8th of June 2011 1,086 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile phone internet-based questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 2.7% in their teens, 24.4% in their twenties, 35.9% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older.

The text of the article answers one big question I had about this survey – the mobile monitor group includes smartphone users, but both ordinary mobile phones (or feature phones, or gala-kei as the slang labels them) users and smartphone users were grouped together under the same label here. However, both the article and I hope that in the future they will split out smartphone users. Personally, I feel the percentage reporting a mobile phone as their main device indicates that there are few smartphone users in that group, and the article too speculates that there will be a trend towards the smartphone web as people’s main viewing platform.
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One of the new features in the Nintendo 3DS is StreetPass, the ability to exchange information with people when you pass within range. This survey from goo Ranking looked at what people thought might be fun information to exchange in passing, using this or similar technologies.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of April 2011 1,110 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 27.4% in their thirties, 26.4% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 9.9% 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.

This survey reminds me a little of an Augmented Reality Twitter app that I read about once. However, the whole idea sounds a bit creepy to me, so I don’t think I’d want a mobile device that had such a feature! If I were to do so, though, I’d probably advertise either my blog URL or Twitter handle.
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A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, was their 70th regular real-time mobile users survey, with the focus on mobile shopping.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 30th of May 2011 1,100 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor pool completed a mobile phone-based questionnaire. 60.7% of the sample were female, 4.7% in their teens, 26.6% in their twenties, 35.0% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 8.3% aged fifty or older.

A little apology for being a bit quiet for the last few days, but I’m currently in Germany at a rather busy conference. Normal service should be resumed next week!
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