世論 What Japan Thinks

This recent survey from iShare looking at tablet computers produced some surprisingly high figures for user numbers.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 19th of October 2010 746 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.2% of the sample were male, 24.8% in their twenties, 34.0% in their thirties, and 41.2% in their forties.

I do find it a bit difficult to believe that according to Q2 almost one in five already have a tablet computer. I don’t know if people are wrongly classifying any touch-operated mobile as a tablet, or if the demographic is completely skewed.

I’ve got no intention of buying a tablet. The main use for my netbook is hacking up blog entries like this one, so I feel that the software keyboard will get in the way of my typing.
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A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at mobile video, their 65th survey in their regular mobile research series.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of October 2010, 1,036 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a mobile internet-based questionnaire, thus everyone was a mobile user. 57.6% of the sample were female, 3.6% in their teens, 25.8% in their twenties, 35.2% in their thirties, 25.6% in their forties, and 9.8% aged fifty or older.

My mobile phone is capable of movie playback, but I don’t believe I’ve ever watched any video, not even playback of video shot with the mobile’s camera.
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iShare took a look at bringing amenity goods to hotels, the reverse of a survey from last year on taking amenity goods home.

Demographics

Between the 15th and 21st of September 2010 470 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.2% of the sample were male, 31.7% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 36.4% in their forties.

I’d love to try it an “Eco Stay” plan as I do get a bit fed up with the wife hoovering up even the razor, despite the fact that I always use an electric shaver. Furthermore, I’d rather my own toothbrush and toothpaste rather than the far too soft brushes and tiny tubes of paste.

However, I do like to grab the shampoo from posher hotels – on my recent trip to Hawaii the mango, honey and lychee soap and shampoo went straight into my suitcase (and then leaked, but that’s another story) and with the bed turn-down service also tidying up the room for a second time each day, I could get double helpings of the freebies!
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A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into internet donations found a higher than I expected figure of people who have donated to charity over the internet.

Demographics

Between the 8th and 13th of October 2010 1,051 members of the goo Research online monitor group copleted a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I’ve never donated anything over the internet, either in Japan or overseas.
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When goo Ranking looked at urban legends related to job-hunting, there were a lot of answers that seemed quite out of place to me. Note that this survey was concerned with the milk round (what is the US term for this?), university students job-hunting activities.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of September 2010 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 68.2% of the sample were female, 10.4% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 26.2% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 7.0% 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.

I only have vague memories of the milk round for me; one notable was visiting and getting rejected by the company that eventually ended up being my ticket to Japan.
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Here’s some fun from goo Ranking, looking at what office romance situations people long to find themselves in, for both men and women.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of September 2010 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 68.2% of the sample were female, 10.4% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 26.2% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 7.0% 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 is the most romantic office photo I could find on flickr, from Gregg O’Connell:

No-one mentioned a quickie in the office stationery cupboard, the archetype of relationships in the British office at least. I remember when I started working first I always kept one out for any comings and goings from the stationery cupboard – I was so young and naive then; now I’m older but not really much the wiser.
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A big story over the summer was the change in the Organ Donation Law to allow family members to offer up their brain-dead relatives for harvesting even without prior agreement from the donor. To see how Japanese felt about this change, iShare took a look at expressing opinions on organ donation.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 12th of October 2010 431 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.6% of the sample were male, 32.9% in their twenties, 29.5% in their thirties, and 37.6% in their forties.

The news has been welcome in my household too as it’s given us an opportunity to talk about our wishes; all my bits are up for grabs, although my wife draws the line at her heart.

When the positive respondents to Q1 were asked why they had filled out their views, top reasons were that they wanted to be useful to someone after death and that they didn’t want their family members to waver over a decision. For those who hadn’t filled out a card yet, those that wanted to do expressed similar reasons to those above. Conversely, those against filling out a card wanted to leave the decision to the surviving family, or they weren’t yet sure what they wanted to do. However, others felt there was still the possibility of recovery from brain death, and if they filled out the card they could get criticised for it.
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Macromill Research recently took a look at sports marketing.

Demographics

Between the 3rd and 5th of September 2010 2,000 members of the Maromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female in each age band, with 20.0% aged between 15 and 29 years old, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% in their sixties.

In Q9 Macromill were having a quick look at a subject I covered earlier, Yama Girls, but they also found that there really didn’t seem to be much of a movement there.
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Following up on a recent survey on hitting children, iShare looked this time at reporting suspected abuse, with an interesting breakdown by kind of residence.

Demographics

Between the 15th and 21st of September 2010 470 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.2% of the sample were male, 31.7% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 36.4% in their forties.

I think I could give you a reasonable estimate of the number of kids in my 32-roomed block of flats, but I could only name one just because I often hear his name being called from the next door garden! If I suspected any abuse of kids I would discuss it with our janitor and get him to do something.
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A story this summer that started off as a tragedy when a family were found to have had their ’111 year old’ father’s bones lying around the house and turned into farce later when a 200 year old man turned up was lost old folk in Japan, the subject of a not-so-recent survey from goo Research, conducted on behalf of the Mainichi Shimbun.

Demographics

Between the 27th and 29th of August 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research online monitor group aged twenty or older completed a private internet-based questionnaire. No further demographic information was given.

I’m sure the Mainichi Shimbun must have published a fuller version of this survey.

The story had two components – first, people dying but their families not notifying anyone so that they could collect the pensions or just their general incompetence with the system for registering deaths; that is a serious social problem that needs to be addressed. Second, local governments for whatever reason not tidying up their internal paperwork, so that when people went missing such as at wartime or when they died or moved but the proper procedures were not followed, orphaned resident register entries were created but these records were never looked at until the first story broke, thus producing the flood of ancient phantoms.
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