世論 What Japan Thinks

If you don’t have a Japanese font installed this survey will be impossible to understand; I do, yet I can barely work out some of these difficult to picture emoji.

Demographics

Over the 19th and 20th of April 2012 1,092 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 17.0% in their twenties, 28.4% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 7.7% 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 can picture just a few of them, but I’ll have to add them all to another site of mine, Evoticon.net.

Ranking results

Q: What emoticons are impossible to read without a capacity for imagination? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank		Explanation	Score
1	ぬす	Flying trapeze	100
2	尖	Droopy-eyed couple kissing	97.7
3	チ゜フ	Cat	95.1
4=	むU	Dog	90.2
4=	でわ	Mouse looking over its shoulder	90.2
6	ぷァ	Leaping dolphin	89.7
7	（と・てノ）	Pteranodon	88.1
8	え゜ぷノ	Samurai chopping the head off a peasant	87.7
9	でつ	Snoopy	83.5
10	゛ho　シャーー	Angry cat	81.3
11	を	Dangling feet in the water/jumping into a pond feet-first	82.1
12	ん。	Fallen down skier	81.1
13	炊	Arguing	80.3
14	誤	Baseball batter missing a fork ball	80.1
15	頂	Cablecar	79.1
16	ブ	Titanic	74.7
17	○（％）。	Ultraman	72.6
18	囘	Baby sleeping in a cot	71.3
19	ぷ。	Bowling	70.4
20	興	Buildings at the end of the road	68.7
21	oh・・・	Bullet time!	68.4
22	のノ	Snail	66.7
23	爪 爪 爪	People planting rice in a paddy	66.6
24=	AAAAAAAAAAAA	Set of 12 coloured pencils	66.3
24=	吠	Person beating a taiko drum	66.3
26	且呉	Praying at a grave	65.7
27	彡ア゜	Ski-jumper	63.8
28	｜｜：3ミ	Bakabon’s Papa (cartoon character)	60.7
29	一ううう	Tug of war	57.4
30	ヲ	Toilet	56.8