世論 What Japan Thinks

This will be the last survey of this year, from goo Ranking and looking at what enjoyable but time-consuming task people want to do.

Demographics

The survey was conducted during the 31st of October and the 1st of November 2013, and 1,060 people completed a private web-based questionnaire. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Happy New Year of the Horse to all my readers! Above is a typical scene from the Japanese concept of First Footing, a midnight visit to a temple.

Ranking result

Q: Over the coming New Year, what enjoyable but time-consuming task do you want to do? (Sample size=1,060)

Rank		Score
1	Address my New Year postcards by hand	100
2	Queue up from the early morning for the January Sales	71.2
3	Go to view the first sunrise of the year	65.2
4	Make Osechi New Year feast	63.6
5	Go to listen to a temple bell ring in the New Year	44.7
6=	Make mochi rice from scratch	37.1
6=	Plan a New Year party	37.1
8	Plan a countdown party	35.6
9	Wear traditional dress to the New Year visit to a shrine	28.0
10=	Do traditional New Year calligraphy	27.3
10=	Make traditional Seven Herbs Rice Porridge	27.3
12	Make traditional New Year soba noodles	27.3
13	Make food, sweets to take to parents when I return to my hometown	22.7
14	Make my own New Year decorations	18.9
15	Make a traditional New Year flower arrangement	14.4
16=	Make a battledore	12.1
16=	Try making a traditional dish from another area of Japan	12.1
16=	Put a drawing of a Treasure Boat under my pillow in order to have a good New Year’s dream	12.1
19	Make my own kagami mochi	9.8
20	Make my own original traditional playing cards	7.6