世論 What Japan Thinks

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That was the question posed by iShare in this survey into being tired of eco life. Note that eco here refers to both ecology and economising.

Demographics

Over the 10th and 11th of November 2010 1,509 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.9% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their twenties, 32.7% in their thirties, 37.6% in their forties, and 13.5% in their fifties. Furthermore, all of them lived within one of the cities of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Osaka, Kyoto or Kobe.

I’m definitely fed up hearing about eco, and I’m dreading the day that they tell us that we should unplug out phone rechargers at work before we go home at night. I worked out that at an average hourly rate it actually costs more money to bend under the desk and spend 10 seconds plugging and unplugging versus the bleed from an average charger.
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An interesting survey from goo Research, conducted in conjunction with President magazine, looked at time management, and this extract highlighted the differences in habits between the rich (over 15 million per year salary) and the average (between 4 and 5 million per year).

Demographics

There was little demographic information, just that there were 311 people in each of the two salary ranges, all of them business people.

I’m a “not at all” for four of them, and a “very much so” for Q4 if writing for the blog qualifies doing something productive while commuting
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This recent survey from iShare looked at air purifier and ioniser purchasing intentions. Note that although it is unseasonal for buying air purifiers as they tend to have an image of being useful for hayfever sufferers, ionisers (or indeed air purifiers with built-in ionisers) are in laboratory tests effective against cleaning influenza and other viruses out of the air.

Demographics

Between the 5th and 8th of November 2010 590 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.6% of the sample were male, 26.9% in their twenties, 33.6% in their thirties, and 39.5% in their forties.

I have an air purifier that we use every night, and it comes complete with a built-in “Plasma Cluster” ioniser. It’s the sort of thing that’s impossible to tell if it has any benefit in real life, I think, but it seems to work in the lab at least.
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Here’s an excellent survey from goo Ranking, looking at what words from your spouse light the blue touchpaper, for both what wives hear from their husbands and what husbands hear from their wives.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of October 2010 1,075 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 66.3% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, 24.7% in their forties, 8.8% in their fifties, and 7.5% 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.

If some of the comments don’t sound like argument starters, try reading them again in a sarcastic tone!

For me irritating my wife, it’s mostly if I say I’m tired, so she’s got me trained these days to realise I have to keep my mouth shut at these junctures.
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It’s a bit late for a Saturday survey, so instead we’ll start Sunday early with a look with goo Ranking at what faults in their ideal hunk could Japanese women compomise on.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of October 2010 1,075 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 66.3% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, 24.7% in their forties, 8.8% in their fifties, and 7.5% 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 survey was for the women only.

The question is implying that it is only the guy’s face that is perfect, as one’s ideal mate would not have faults, obviously! Unfortunately, there’s no answer “I’m not that shallow to choose people on looks alone”.
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A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at libraries and the internet. Note that the questions here are focusing on a public web site for the library, rather than internet terminals available within the library.

Demographics

Between the 27th and 29th of October 2010 1,068 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 020.6% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 16.0% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.

I’m not sure what sort of ebook or music distribution facilities are available on public-facing library sites – my local library has none of that new-fangled nonsense, just searching and reserving books.

Oh, and don’t ask me why the answers to Q1 were rounded to zero decimal places but SQ1 and SQ1 were rounded to one decimal place.
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This recent survey from iShare looked into the Japanese bedroom to find out how couples sleep in Japan.

Demographics

Between the 26th and 29th of October 2010 615 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.4% of the sample were male, 24.1% in their twenties, 35.0% in their thirties, and 41/0% in their forties.

Q1SQ1 is perhaps slightly misleading as I suspect people who sleep on futons often use two single quilts and two single matresses pushed together as double futons are the exception rather than the rule, although I should look for statistics to back up this claim.

Some of the reasons for sleeping in separate rooms were due to a baby displacing the husband, but noisy snoring was also a factor.
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This recent survey from goo Research into satisfaction with life overseas found satisfaction levels far higher than my stereotypes of Japanese abroad would suggest.

Demographics

Between the 26th and 28th of May 2010 892 people randomly selected from the members of the goo Research online monitor group who had had experience of living abroad completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 64.8% of the sample were female, 1.9% in their teens, 30.3% in their twenties, 34.3% in their thirties, 21.4% in their forties, 8.3% in their fifties, 3.4% in their sixties, and 0.4% aged seventy or older. However, what constituted living abroad, specifically a minimum time span, was not mentioned.

In Q1, I can understand people being satisfied at getting a larger home than their Japanese dwelling, especially those living abroad on the company’s dime. The overall conveniences perhaps raises an eyebrow, but a majority being satisfied with the food is a surprise. Conversely, 37.7% being uncommital regarding their relationships with their neighbours suggests that people didn’t mix that much.
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The seventh regular survey by goo Research into home electrical appliances, reported on by japan.internet.com, revealed surprising statistics regarding which appliances are likely to lead to warranty claims.

Demographics

Between the 28th of October and the 2nd of November 2010 1,034 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 16.2% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.

This survey backs up the results from last week’s look at digital TV preparations that showed that digital televisions have overtaken analogue as the analogue switch-off nears. However, I’m not sure what the seven people from Q2 are doing buying an analogue television within the last month!

Also note that I translated the third in the series in January.
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DIMSDRIVE Research recently published a survey from April that they conducted into views on marriage.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 29th of April 2010 7,764 members of the DIMSDRIVE monitor group comnpleted a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the sample were male, 0.9% in their teens, 10.8% in their twenties, 30.6% in their thirties, 32.0% in their forties, 17.3% in their fifties, and 8.4% aged sixty or older.

I think Q3 should be an essential point of reference for any journalist writing about konkatsu, showing that just 3% of single people are hunting for a wedding partner, and the other 13% doing something might just be asking friends if they know anyone unattached.

Talking of konkatsu, I found this silly little story about the Lucky Star cartoon-featured Washinomiya Shrine’s otaku dating event.
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