世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking recently took a look at when people think their tour guide on an overseas holiday is terrible - the foreign in the title refers to the location, as the guides may either be Japanese or local.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

My worst experience was with a local guide in Prague who must have been a closet communist as he spent a lot of time complaining when taking us round one site how the British and Americans had shot up the place during the Second World War, but I thought that was the Eastern Front so would have been the Soviets, and indeed we walked past a photo display captioned to indicate that it was as I suspected the Soviets. Later he spent some time moaning how the Austrian tour guides get double his pay…
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Despite having lots of followers, I still don’t know the answer to the question goo Ranking posed, namely what’s so great about Twitter?

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Whenever I see programs or read about Twitter users, especially Japanese users, I am overcome with a great feeling of sadness. Mobile users, especially, seem to have devolved from rich email to basically text SMS.
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The most sexy location for a mole was the subject of a recent goo Ranking survey.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

As I’m not very good at posting sexy pictures, instead let’s look at zoer from flickr’s unsexy moles:

Or your Japanese boyfriend for that matter, the subject of a recent goo Ranking survey into the moments when people realise as they have a dog they don’t need a partner.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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 a dog person, I cannot relate to the question, although I can relate to answers number… heck, just about all of them. However, number 18 is a little bit…
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Or indeed, what you wish she didn’t, or what women wish their boyfriends would or wouldn’t do, the subject of another entertaining ranking survey from goo Ranking.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

For men’s second choice, getting their woman to email once a day, I don’t know it that implies at least or at most once per day…

You’ll notice that for the men, the two answers at number six are contradictary, and 14= explains why she does 12 and 13!

The sticking a photo on a battery refers to the habit of getting photo seals from puri-kura machines.

My wishes would be to stop asking me to talk to her while she’s emailing and to properly use her unlimited plan or switch to another.
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goo Ranking recently took a look at which fortune telling methods people think are the most accurate. As the survey is a bit short, I’ll leave in the Japanese terms as a little bit of education.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Previous fortune telling-related surveys have been undesirable palm reading lines, horoscopes versus blood typing, and blood typing.

The six planets divination is the speciality of the evil witch Kazuko Hosoki, a Guinness Book record holder as the best-selling author in the world. Thankfully, about two or three years ago she disappeared from the television screens (there must be a story behind that!) but recently she’s made a comeback on adverts for her mobile phone site.
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On television last night I watched my favourite program, “If I were Prime Minister”, which instead of the usual format of debating a political topic of the day, decided to run a vote by the public of the top ten people who have ruined the Japan of today (the translation of the key term is rendered by one online dictionary as buggered up). They also did a more positive who has made the Japan of today better survey, so I will present the results of both surveys here.
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Japanese make lousy travellers, on the whole, I feel, and this survey from goo Ranking into worried before foreign travel backs up my opinions.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

My wife is a hopeless worrier about foreign travel, especially in contrast to me, as I go with just a vague idea of where might be nice to visit, yet she tries to draw up a detailed itinery. My main worry is whether or not I’ll get a chance to sit in an open cafe on a sunny afternoon having a hot coffee or a cool beer!

Number 13 is due to the fact that a lot of tours feature souvenir shops rather highly. I remember seeing a report about a cheap Hong Kong tour where you had to pay extra if you didn’t want to go to the Duty Free shopping centre.

Photo from slworking2 on flickr - I think his main worry is forgetting his battery charger…
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goo Ranking have another fun FAIL survey, this time looking at what personal grooming in the opposite sex takes you aback, for men looking at women and women looking at men.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.
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goo Ranking took a look at what secrets that if you heard about someone of the opposite sex that you liked, they’d go down in your opinion, for both men hearing about women and women hearing about men.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Just to explain a couple, a Yankee is basically a juvenile delinquent, a gal is a young girl with dyed blonde hair and far too much makeup, and a gal-man is, according to Google Images, a guy with well, just look at the fine specimens here.
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