世論 What Japan Thinks

As the famous Japanese movie series puts it, Otoko ha tsurai yo!, so to see how tough, goo Ranking asked what male dilemmas men want to make a definite selection on.

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% 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 was for the men only.

I’m boxers, boku, married, clean-shaven, ring, short, folding, neither, draft, don’t wear jeans, and Android for starters.

Let’s have a poll!

Ranking results

Q: What men’s dilemmas would you like to resolve? (Sample size=454)

Rank		Score
1	Boxers or briefs	100
2	Ore or boku	80.7
3	Get married or not	69.9
4	Beard or clean-shaven	61.4
5=	Wear a wedding ring or not	59.0
5=	Short hair or long hair	59.0
7	Long flat wallet or folding wallet	56.6
8	Black hair or dye brown	48.2
9	Draft beer or bottled beer in pubs	44.6
10	Tuck tee shirt into jeans, or leave it out	41.0
11	iPhone or Android	39.8
12	After shave or not	36.1
13=	Single-breasted or double-breasted suits	30.1
13=	Spend freely or put some aside for a rainy day	30.1
13=	All-over sun tan or stay white	30.1
16=	Wear glasses or not	26.5
16=	Carry a man bag or not	26.5
18	Pocket watch or wrist watch	21.7
19	Grow sideburns or not	20.5
20	Read Shonen Jump or Shonen Magazine	19.3
21	Use cosmetics or not	18.1
22	Pointy shoes or round shoes	14.5
23	Seiko solar-powered or Citizen solar-powered watch	12.0
24	PASMO or Suica electronic train pass	10.8
25	Clothes with stripes or with borders	4.8