世論 What Japan Thinks

My Canon is a single-function inkjet, so I’m quite close to the norm according to this survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into inkjet printers.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 12th of January 2011 1,060 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.8% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.7% in their twenties, 20.2% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.

I plan to upgrade shortly as the print head is getting a bit worn out, and although the head can be cheaply replaced, I’d like to get a Brother so I can interchange ink cartridges with my multi-function phone/fax/printer/scanner/SD card printer/kitchen sink.
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japan.internet.com recently published the results of the 66th regular mobile advertising survey from goo Research.

Demographics

Between the 5th and 7th of January 2011 1,096 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.0% of the sample were female, 2.8% in their teens, 24.7% in their twenties, 37.7% in their thirties, 26.6% in their forties, and 8.3% aged fifty or older.

I’ve never bought anything through my mobile phone, and even though my wife does a lot of PC-based shopping, she has never to my knowledge used her mobile. The strange thing is that mobile shopping should be more secure, or at least a mobile phone is easier to lock down, yet as far as I am aware most mobiles such as Japanese feature phones have little or no protection against many kinds of attacks. However, there are various moves afoot to correct that, such as some stuff I am involved in.
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There’s a reasonably popular program on the television in Japan, がっちりアカデミー, gacchiri academy, with perhaps “School for Skinflints” being a good English translation. This program has a panel of experts that focus on the financial pluses or minuses of various activities, so perhaps this was the inspiration for a survey from goo Ranking into about which matters would people want to hear from an expert which was the better choice.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 22nd of November 2010 1,171 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 19.1% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 23.4% in their forties, 9.6% in their fifties, and 7.6% 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’d like to hear “Permanent Residency versus naturalisation”, perhaps, and also regarding number 7, why people need to ask which toilet paper is better! What would you like to hear?
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This short ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at Western table manners that Japanese just don’t understand very well.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 22nd of November 2010 1,171 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 19.1% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 23.4% in their forties, 9.6% in their fifties, and 7.6% 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.

Much to my surprise, “all of them” is not the top answer! Most of the Japanese I know have rather poor table manners overall (and even here and there their Japanese table manners leave something to be desired), but this survey seems to be dealing with finer points of etiquette. Personally, not being female I don’t know number 4, and I’m not 100% certain on finger bowls, but I think I’ve only once been at a meal where they have been present.
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This is a very interesting survey from iShare, looking at the subject of children becoming independent from their parents and vice versa.

Demographics

Between the 3rd and 6th of December 2010 1,088 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service with a child aged 15 years old or younger completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 80.1% of the sample were male, 43.6% in their thirties, 52.3% in their forties, and 4.1% in their fifties.

I don’t think I particularly hated going out with the parents when I was a child, nor do I remember any definite time in my schooldays where I felt I had broken away from them; however, I suspect my mother might have a completely different answer looking at it from her side!

Note that in Q3SQ, almost all Japanese schoolchildren (as far as I know!) take lunchboxes to school and are expected to have their mid-day meal in the classroom, whereas when I was a kid most people who were within walking distance of the school went home for lunch.
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With the electronic book market beginning to heat up in Japan, this recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into electronic books and electronic book sellers found that the recent announcements from Sharp and Sony were fresh in many people’s minds.

Demographics

Between the 15th and 19th of December 2010 1,079 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.

I’ve never heard of the Kobo, although it seems to be Canadian rather than the seemingly Japanese name it has.

Furthermore, I of course knew about Amazon selling e-books, but I’d never heard of the rest.

Everything I hear about the Kindle sounds good, and if I did slightly more travelling (or slightly less blogging!) I’d buy one. If the Japanese ones have managed to get a lot of publishers on board, and if the price of individual volumes is cheaper than the paper versions, I’d be inclined to get one for the wife, just so we could tidy up a lot of the clutter of books!
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Last year (I’m just getting round to translating it now!) iShare conducted an interesting survey looking into family budget management, split into two parts, those who wish to marry and those already married. Today is the unmarried half of the survey.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of December 2010 1,140 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was split into two groups; first, there were 568 unmarried but hoping to be married people; 66.9% of them were male, 18.5% in their twenties, and 81.5% in their thirties. Next, 572 were married, with 55.9% of them male, 6.1% in their twenties, and 93.9% in their thirties.

It’s interesting to note that the amount of married men who would like to keep their salary and saving secret is about double the amount of unmarried men who said they would want to keep it secret!
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Last year (I’m just getting round to translating it now!) iShare conducted an interesting survey looking into family budget management, split into two parts, those who wish to marry and those already married. Today is the unmarried half of the survey.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of December 2010 1,140 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was split into two groups; first, there were 568 unmarried but hoping to be married people; 66.9% of them were male, 18.5% in their twenties, and 81.5% in their thirties. Next, 572 were married, with 55.9% of them male, 6.1% in their twenties, and 93.9% in their thirties.

My Google AdSense earnings used to be a secret account, but then I had to dig into them to fund a couple of things, so now it contributes ever so slightly to the general family finances.
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With today being Coming of Age Day in Japan, we of course get a number of surveys on these new adults. This one from O-Net, a marriage agency, caught my eye.

Demographics

Between the 26th and 29th of November 2010 800 members of the Rakuten Research monitor panel who would be coming of age in 2011 – that is, born between the 2nd of April 1990 and the 1st of April 1991 – and were not married completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female. Furthermore, 75.0% of the males and 67.8% of the females were in university, 13.9% in colleges or other further education, 5.6% had full-time regular jobs, 5.7% in other jobs, 2.5% unemployed, 0.9% in the process of starting a job, and one other. 57.3% lived at home with parents, 39.1% were living alone, 2.% with other family, 1.3% with friends and 0.4% in other accomodation.

There’s a good number of surprising statistics, such as over two in five having thought of suicide, three in five males being herbivore, and just 2.4% supportive of the political direction of Japan.

The survey itself was a bit longer than the questions below, but I’ve run out of time tonight to translate…
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Or indeed man, what symptoms are there? That was the question from goo Ranking, which was answered by both men and women.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 22nd of November 2010 1,171 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 19.1% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 23.4% in their forties, 9.6% in their fifties, and 7.6% 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.

One obvious (perhaps “obvious” is not really the best word to use) symptom for men has probably been removed from their results on the grounds of taste, but if you recall the next line from the Dr Hook hit in the title, you will catch my drift. Anyway, on with the results!
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