Between the 23rd and 26th of March 2011 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 24.7% in their thirties, 23.7% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 15.0% 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. This question was for the men only.
According to the blurb, the current circulation is 2.935 million per week, with the record sales being from 1994, when they sold 6.53 million copies one week! I’ve not got much to say on this subject, not being a manga fan, but I will say that I was disappointed to see so many pirate and bootleg sites appearing in my Google searches for the titles. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent report from japan.internet.com on a survey conducted by goo Research into mobile phone manners found that most people are not far from their mobile phones.
Demographics
Between the 27th of April and the 6th of May 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
One curious omission from Q1SQ is watching television or video; I don’t think just 0.5% have done so!
Also, although just 1.1% reported regularly talking on their phones on trains, I suspect that meant people who make calls without bothering about the annoyance they might be causing others. In my experience there’s always one or two people furtively making or receiving calls when I ride the train home! Read the rest of this entry »
On the 15th of April 2011 1,193 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 8.9% in their twenties, 45.7% in their thirties, and 45.4% in their forties.
I too used television news as my main source, and after about a month of wall-to-wall news, I, like the majority in Q2SQ, felt a lack of information on switching back to normal programming. What was your own most important news source? Read the rest of this entry »
A survey by goo Research into mobile phones in bed revealed some rather interesting habits about what goes on between the sheets.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 25th of March 2011 1,818 businesspeople who were members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 912 of the sample were male, 447 were in their twenties, 440 in their thirties, 453 in their forties, and 468 in their fifties. Furthermore, 1584 owned ordinary mobile phones, 107 had Android-based ones, 108 iPhones, and 19 other smartphones.
I am in the up to five hours category, although it’s been more “up to” than “five hours” recently as my wife has got addicted to a Japanese version of Farmville. I never use my mobile in bed, however, as I’m far too tired, and anyway I’ve had my fill of the internet via my desktop before bedtime. Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the iPhone having an almost 18 month head start on Android, according to this survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile devices (the 9th time this regular survey has been conducted) Android and Android-derived OS users now equal iPhone users.
Demographics
Between the 25th and 28th of April 2011 1,080 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the sample were male, 15.8% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.8% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, and 27.9% aged fifty or older.
I have another marketplace-based survey that I will translate later that shows that Android is outselling iPhone, which of course is implied by the results of this survey.
Note that until last autumn about the only Android devices available were lower-end HTC devices and a couple of local attempts, all of which were very poor compared to the iPhone, and hopeless when compared to the Japanese standard feature phone. However, now every Japanese manufacturer is now in the game, and the features that Japanese consumers expect, namely One Seg digital television, Osaifu Keitai electronic cash and deco-mail (HTML mail) are available. Furthermore, the iPhone is only available from SoftBank, which has just 20% of the handset market, whereas SoftBank plus the other two big players, docomo and au, have huge numbers of Android-based phones.
Finally, note that Galapagos is Sharp’s own customised Android version – they cannot use the Google trademarks due to the heavy customising they have done. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 23rd and 26th of March 2011 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 24.7% in their thirties, 23.7% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 15.0% 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. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Ranking recently looked at Japan’s worst corporate customs. For many foreigners in Japanese workplaces, a harder question would be to list Japan’s best corporate customs, however!
Demographics
Between the 23rd and 26th of March 2011 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 24.7% in their thirties, 23.7% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 15.0% 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.
Although it doesn’t say in the text, the answers seem to mainly reflect women’s situation in the workplace, or perhaps it’s just that they have more complaints, a situation which I can well understand. When my wife was single, she used to have to go out drinking many evenings in the week, and her boss’s choice in pubs were usually Filipino bars…
Extreme heat and cold is another one, and this year will be even worse as many more companies will be following government advice and setting air conditioning to 28 degrees Celcius. Indeed, my place of work asked us to consider 29 degrees or more… Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 23rd and 26th of March 2011 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 24.7% in their thirties, 23.7% in their forties, 13.3% in their fifties, and 15.0% 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.
Not being much for shopping for clothes myeslf, I cannot really relate to any of the comments. When I first came to Japan, though, I was looking for jeans, but none of the pairs they got for me fitted (I’m a bit short in the leg), so they asked if I’d like to try on a women’s pair… Read the rest of this entry »
DIMSDRIVE Research recently reported on a survey from last August into drinking alcohol.
Demographics
Between the 19th of August and 2nd of September 2010 7.069 members of the DIMSDRIVE monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.6% of the sample were male, 9.9% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 32.5% in their forties, 18.1% in their fifties, and 9.7% aged sixty or older.
Normally, I fall into the once every two or three month category, although when I have a business trip overseas I may occassionally have an extra shandy or two; I’m most likely off to Munich next month, so I might force myself to sample a litre or five of the local brew…
Here’s Tokyo Metro telling you to get beered up at home, not in the platform:
A recently reported-on survey by DIMSDRIVE Research looked at a food that has been all too common in the disaster-struck areas, the humble onigiri, or rice ball, a food that is just what it says, with the usual configuration being a ball (or more usually a triangle) of rice with some ingredient in the centre and wrapped in nori, a sheet of dried seaweed.
Demographics
Between the 4th and 18th of November 2010 12,195 members of the DIMSDRIVE Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.9% of the sample were male, 0.7% in their teens, 8.0% in their twenties, 26.0% in their thirties, 32.9% in their forties, 19.9% in their fifties, and 12.5% aged sixty or older. Furthermore, 65.0% were married, 14.5% lived by themselves, 25.9% with one other, 25.2% with two others, 22.4% with three others, and 12.0% with four or more others.
I’m no fan, as the idea of cold rice does not appeal to me in the slightest, and I cannot handle the texture of nori.
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