世論 What Japan Thinks

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japan.internet.com reported on the 71st regular realtime mobile phone survey by goo Research, with the focus this time on mobile phone video.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 16th of June 2011 1,019 mobile phone-owning members of the goo Research monitor group completed a mobile internet-based questionnaire. 60.9% of the sample were female, 5.4% in their teens, 31.4% in their twenties, 33.0% in their thirties, 22.7% in their forties, and 7.6% aged fifty or older.

Being on a pay-per-packet type mobile plan, I watch absolutely zero mobile phone video, although I have recently started watching Blackadder on a portable media player borrowed from the office.
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With Panasonic in particular chasing the female market with their P-07C Android smartphone, iShare took a look at the basics of how women choose smartphones.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 16th of June 2011 968 female members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 10.8% of the sample were in their twenties, 45.1% in their thirties, and 44.0% in their forties.

The second half of the survey concentrated mostly on smartphone users. I’m not really suprised that in Q10SQ Bluetooth is the most frequently unused feature, but I am surprised that music playing is. Perhaps worries about battery life outweigh the desire to use the feature?
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With Panasonic in particular chasing the female market with their P-07C Android smartphone, iShare took a look at the basics of how women choose smartphones.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 16th of June 2011 968 female members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 10.8% of the sample were in their twenties, 45.1% in their thirties, and 44.0% in their forties.

As noted below, almost everyone I see, both male and female, has a case for their smartphone. Given that the most popular style of feature phone is the clamshell, perhaps people are not in the habit of carefully stowing phones away from keys and other sources of scratches?
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Have you ever bought goods or services through search ads?The latest mini report from japan.internet.com on a goo Research survey was this one on the 15th regular look at internet advertising.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 24th of June 2011 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 28.0% aged fifty or older.

Despite having contextual adverts myself, at these points I always do recommend people run an advertisement blocker. My favourite is AdMuncher (affiliate link); it comes with a 30 day free trial so you can see how it works. I love it for the simplicity and that it works with every browsers, so block a URL once and it disappears from everywhere.
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A recent ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at fun company rules that people would like to see introduced at their own workplace.

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.

While looking up some of the companies listed, I came across more office rules from Kayac (in English). The one I found most curious was:

Lucky Wages

All our staff can play as they earn with our lucky dice scheme. They can top up their basic monthly wage by rolling the dice, introducing an element of fun and chance into their working day.

Now that is quite, quite strange!
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A recent survey from goo Research looked at internet telephony, or VoIP, and the report on japan.internet.com focused on a pair of questions about Skype.

Demographics

Between the 13th and 16th of June 2011 1,091 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.4% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.

I’m surprised with the high percentage using Skype on their smartphones; I wonder what the pattern of usage is? Do people leave it always loaded as a replacement for the phone, or do they just load it up for specific calls, or do they send an email to tell the other end to load up the program? Perhaps one day I’ll find a report on that…
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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.

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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