世論 What Japan Thinks

This page contains a list of various Japanese companies that will pay you in cash or shopping points, or enter you into prize draws, for filling out internet or email surveys. Feel free to click through and sign up. I believe most of the companies listed here to be trustworthy and reliable, and they hopefully won’t spam either your mailbox or your phone if you pass over the details, although if they do, I can only offer my apologies, nothing else.

I suspect that if you get lucky (the larger companies have hundreds of thousands of members) you can get chosen for more lucrative surveys than the standard ones I report below.

Further information regarding surveys and other money-making schemes in Japan can be obtained from my main source, Rich Big Brother’s Road (uggh, the English translation sounds awful!). Note that none of the links are affiliate links, so I have no financial interest in whether you click through or not.

goo Research – グーリサーチ

Some of the questionnaires here can be rather lengthy and comprehensive – I’ve had to abandon filling out two of them as I ran out of time and you cannot save state and resume later! The lengthy questionnaires pay one or two hundred points a time, and their short ones just a handful. Points can be exchanged for shopping vouchers, with a minimum transaction of 500 points converted to 500 yen.

These guys are professional, and the questions I have seen have been very thoroughly designed. As well as their standard membership, they also have business and mobile user monitor groups.

Oh, and I just got the offer to participate in a software trial for 500 yen’s worth of points!

Goo has an affiliates scheme, but you need pre-approval and it looks like too much of a pain to set up for 10 yen per click-through.

Sign up here: http://research.goo.ne.jp/monitor/m_entry.html

MyVoice – マイボイス

I like this company’s surveys! Short and sweet, although there seems only to be one set of questionnaires per month. 1500 points are needed before you can cash in, which might take over a year to accumulate! The web site mentioned above, however, recommends the place highly. Perhaps there is the occasional high-paying survey. The web site also mentions that they fill up their quota of survey takers very quickly, which I found out myself to my cost two nights ago, so if you get a mail from them, be sure to soon reply.

Sign up here: https://www.myvoice.co.jp/cgi-bin/voice/entry.cgi

Yahoo! Research Monitor Lite – Yahooリサーチモニターライト

Yahoo! Japan’s research arm. This gives you one yen’s worth of shopping credit for each point you earn, which can be freely used through Yahoo!’s online shops. Note that you need a Yahoo! Japan user ID to sign up, however. The typical small survey gives a few tens of points.

The “Lite” in the name refers mostly to the sign-up process, as they ask for very little demographic information, so I suspect the rewards will also be lite. They also have a full-blown research monitor group, but that requires either a net bank or post office account number to be entered at sign-up time in order for them to bank your rewards. There is a third option for mobile phone users, and anyone can sign up for all three services.

Sign up here: http://research.yahoo.co.jp/monitor/indexlite.html

DIMSDRIVE Research – インターネットリサーチDIMSDRIVE

They have quite a few surveys on the go at any one time, and their reward system is, on the whole, prize draws for Visa shopping vouchers. The typical survey seems to offer about 50 500 yen prizes, and with sample sizes of around 5000 people or more, there’s roughly a 1% chance of winning some money. They also have a prize draw for all new members.

DIMSDRIVE do a lot of interesting surveys, and the questions seem well-designed.

Sign up here: http://www.dims.ne.jp/campaign/campaign.html