A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into online shopping showed that credit card was by far the most popular payment method.
Demographics
Between the 31st of October and the 4th of November 2011 1,086 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private mobile phone (including smartphone)-based questionnaire. 59.9% of the sample were female, 3.8% in their teens, 29.7% in their twenties, 34.5% in their thirties, 24.5% in their forties, and 7.6% aged fifty or older.
I’ve never shopped online from my mobile for all the three reasons listed in Q1SQ2, and other reasons would include that the services I buy from are all overseas, and they don’t work very well, if at all, on Japanese mobiles. Read the rest of this entry »
With the iPod having beaten just about all the opposition (Sony are still fighting strongly), then the iPhone dominating, although it may be slipping right now, and the iPad too doing very well, it seems opportune to ask why people like Apple products. This ranking survey was conducted by goo Ranking.
Demographics
Between the 18th and 20th of October 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 11.2% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 25.7% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 11.5% 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.
I own no Apple products, but they definitely are idiot-proof (#3) and the unified infrastructure (#5) such that all your music, photos and apps can seamlessy travel between all your devices is really a very strong selling point, and a great way to lock-in customers. I also suspect that if people had really been honest, #20 would be much higher!
Christmas is coming, and goo Research were first to get in on the act with their look at Christmas.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 25th of October 2011, 503 members of the goo Research monitor group residing within Tokyo city or the three surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Saitama or Kanagawa completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.9% of the sample were female, 33.8% in their twenties, 33.2% in their thirties, and 33.0% in their forties.
I hate all the Christmas present nonsense myself. I send my parents our company’s calendar every year, which is always a nice and easy purchase to make, then I agonise over what to get the wife, and it usually ends up as some cuddly toys.
Note that Christmas in Japan usually means Christmas Eve, and indeed that is how it should be read in the questions below. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Reseach’s latest survey, reported on by japan.internet.com, was not on genetically-modified rodents, but instead on the computer kind of mouse.
Demographics
Over the 24th and 25th of October 2011 1,089 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.
I use both wired and wireless mice. I quite like the wireless one, but it’s just a little heavy, and the performance gets a bit dodgy as the batteries get a little lower. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research recently conducted an interesting survey, reported on by japan.internet.com, into geiger counters.
Demographics
Over the 24th and 25th of October 2011 1,089 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.5% of the sample were male, 16.9% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.9% in their fifties, and 11.7% aged sixty or older.
I suppose if I was intellectually bankrupt and just wanted to get hits for this story by getting spread to the more excitable corners of the web, I should have entitled the story something like “Four in five Japanese will DIE of STUBBORNNESS”, and indeed I wouldn’t be too surprised if it gets picked up anyway and repackaged with a similar scary line. Anyway, I believe that geiger counters are actually relatively difficult to use accurately, and for perhaps the biggest source of (mostly unfounded) worry, foodstuffs, they are pretty much useless, but yet I hear that people in Tokyo supermarkets do wave them over the veggie stalls. I wonder how they react to bananas and Brazil nuts? Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 14th and 17th of October 2011 3,272 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 72.8% of the sample were male, 1.3% in their teens, 8.9% in their twenties, 24.3% in their thirties, 33.2% in their forties, 25.7% in their fifties, and 6.5% in their sixties.
My only food allergy is red wine, which makes me come out in a flush and does my head in after just a sip or two. I’m not really sure if it’s an allergy or just a sensitivity to tannin or whatever, but an allergy is most trendy to have. I also have the usual hayfever, and also to a certain type of penicillin that they probably don’t make any more. I also have a sensitivity to flea bites, I think, as when I stayed on my own in Japan my arms would swell up to twice their size on a regular basis. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 5th and 6th of September 2011 1,112 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 70.8% of the sample were female, 13.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 28.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 6.0% 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.
Looking at that list there’s probably just one or two I actually discussed at any length! Perhaps this list indicates that Japanese men in particular tend to be quite selfish and see themselves as the head of the household that can do whatever he wants, so this list is perhaps the bride-to-be ensuring that some ground rules are in place? Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 5th and 6th of September 2011 1,112 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 70.8% of the sample were female, 13.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 28.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 6.0% 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.
Number two was rather difficult to translate, as I wasn’t quite sure of the exact nuance in the phrase! I’m not really sure what my own answer would be, but for number one, given the availability of the internet these days, being caught *cough* reading *cough* an inappropriate web site must be an ever-present danger for teenagers.
According to a random photo on flickr, even grannies can be caught doing number one…
My last smartphone survey for the week is this from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looking at mobile devices, the second in a regular series.
Demographics
Between the 26th and 29th of October 2011 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.
I was looking at docomo smartphones and tablets today, and I was quite surprised how cheap they are! There’s a new Panasonic P-01D out with a 3.2 inch screen that’s just about 10,000 yen to upgrade to, the 7 inch Galaxy Tab is just 3,000 yen if you pick it up as a second phone, and even a top-end 10 inch water-resistant Honeycomb tablet with LTE 4G is just a touch over 20,000 yen. The offers last until Christmas, so don’t leave it too late! I’m very tempted by the tiny Pana I mentioned, and if I use my saved-up points I can get it for just about free! If I can set up a firewall or router or the like on the phone, I can force it to use wi-fi all the time and avoid packet charges, making it in theory cheaper than my current feature phone. Here’s a video of it in action – I’ll give the pink a miss this time…
Here’s another very interesting smartphone survey, this time looking at smartphones and privacy awareness, and conducted by goo Research.
Demographics
Over the 30th and 31st of May 2011 1,573 smartphone owning members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.4% of the sample had an iPhone, 47.6% an Android-based phone; 1.0% had had their smartphone for less than a month, 12.5% between one and three months, 28.3% between three and six months, 25.3% six months to a year, 22.8% for one or two years, and 10.1% more than two years. 71.9% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their twenties, 34.6% in their thirties, 29.9% in their forties, 14.9% in their fifties, and 3.9% aged sixty or older.
I’m really surprised about the very low disclosure rate of who one works for, but it does very much ring true with what people who were sceptical of whether LinkedIn could make it in Japan said. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into online shopping showed that credit card was by far the most popular payment method.
Christmas is coming, and goo Research were first to get in on the act with their look at 
goo Reseach’s latest survey, reported on by japan.internet.com, was not on genetically-modified rodents, but instead on the 
goo Research recently conducted an interesting survey, reported on by japan.internet.com, into 
iShare recently took a look at 
Here’s another very interesting smartphone survey, this time looking at 
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