japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey by goo Research into electronic cash, and found that the most common usage was where being quick was important, such as at train stations, convenience stores, and small transactions to avoid fighting with change.
Demographics
Between the 17th and 19th of April 2013 1,068 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.4% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 11.7% aged sixty or older.
The numbers do suggest that electronic money is well-established here in Japan. I use one card, only, Hankyu Stacia, from a local railway, department store, shopping centre, baseball team, hotel etc operator, mostly for saving me fiddling about at ticket machines, but also occasionally at convenience stores and rarely at vending machines. It also has the benefit (from my point of view, at least) of being a post-pay system – there is no stored money; they are closer to credit card transactions. Mind you, given that most if not all electronic cash cards tied to credit cards have auto-charging features (that is, when your stored balance gets below a certain point when you pay for something, a debit from your credit card account is automatically added to your stored balance) the benefits of post-pay are I suppose minimal! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on a survey by goo Research into electronic book purchasing sites, although the column chose to highlight free e-book sites.
Demographics
Between the 5th and 10th of April 2013 1,076 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionniare. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
A long time ago I downloaded and read two books from Aozora, and I’ve also recently downloaded a couple from Google Books, but I am yet to read them. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at web site viewing, the seventh time this regular survey has been performed, and found that tablets were surprisingly (to me at least) less popular than feature phones when it came to selecting a main surfing device.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of April 2013 1,090 mobile phone- (including smartphone-) using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.6% of the sample were female, 3.1% in their teens, 23.1% in their twenties, 37.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 11.2% aged fifty or older.
I’m beginning to seriously consider using a tablet as my main tool for home, replacing my netbook, although I do need to find a decent text editor with macros in order to produce all the tables I use. If anyone has any good recommendations, I’m all ears. And no, Emacs for Android is most certainly not a good recommendation!
In Q1SQ1, I’d like to know more about why about half the smartphone users choose it as their primary surfing device, but only one in five tablet users do so. I suspect it is something to do with the smartphone being more portable thus usable on the train when commuting, and perhaps a lot of tablets are wifi only, so have less connectivity. Read the rest of this entry »
With the cherry blossom season over bar a handful of the northern prefectures and Hokkaido, this survey struggles for relevance due to me being a bit slow to translate japan.internet.com’s report on goo Research’s o-hanami, cherry blossom viewing.
Demographics
Between the 28th and 30th of March 2013 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.6% of the sample were male, 13.4% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 17.1% in their forties, 15.1% in their fifties, and 17.4% aged sixty or older.
Technically, it is just any flower viewing, not just cherry blossoms, but I assume that the reference is to cherry blossoms only.
This year, I didn’t go to any cherry blossoms. In fact, now I think about it, I’ve only actually twice been to them, both with my wife – I’ve never taken part, and don’t really want to take part, in the ritual drinking on a blue sheet under the trees. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 28th and 31st of January 2013 2,350 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, and similarly the age groups were evenly split with 20.0% in each of the age bands from twenties to the over-sixties.
I’d like to buy more Fairtrade, but there is a definite lack of shops here selling it. The obvious product is coffee, but although I don’t drink it at home, if there is a choice when I go to a coffee shop I will take the Fairtrade one, although again it is very rare to find such a cafe. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research recently conducted their seventh regular survey into electronic books, which was reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Over the 25th and 26th of March 2013 1,089 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.9% of the sample were male, 13.4% in their teens, 15.9% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 17.4% in their forties, 19.4% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older. Furthermore, the sixth regular survey was conducted between the 10th and 13th of December 2012 and had 1,076 participants with roughly similar demographics.
When it comes to the start of the financial year and the annual intake of fresh graduates, around town can be seen many a fresh-faced youth in a “freshers suit”, as they are called in Japan. Thus, this recent report by japan.internet.com regarding a survey from goo Research into purchasing suits decided to focus on the fresher suit.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 14th of March 2013 1,083 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.7% of the sample were male, 13.7% in their teens, 15.5% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 17.2% in their forties, 14.8% in their fifties, and 17.3% aged sixty or older.
Rather than a pie chart today, here’s two television advertisements for a suits store. Which do you prefer?
With the hayfever season still in full swing in Japan – we’ve moved from cedar to hinoki cypress this week – japan.internet.com reported on a survey from goo Research into hayfever, looking particularly at where people find out about the pollen forecast.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 24th of March 2013 1,079 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.
My hayfever is a little funny this year – I had a horrendous hayfever-like reaction to something at the end of December last year, but despite this year having elevated levels of pollen, all I had was a mildly blocked nose and gentle sneezing. Instead of having to beat the ENT doctor’s door down at the start of March as usual, this time I just went as I had a free afternoon at the end of March, and the doctor seemed surprised that my nose was showing few signs of irritation, so he did a blood test for allergen markers, but I still haven’t got round to picking up the results.
The start of the new financial and university year this month also brings us to the house moving season, so this look by goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into property searching is rather timely.
Demographics
Over the 8th and 9th of March 2013 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.8% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.
The three times I searched for a flat in Japan, the first two times were with the aid of my employer filtering offerings from an estate agent, and the third time was via fliers that came through the door, not really the most high-tech method available! Read the rest of this entry »
This recent short report from japan.internet.com on a survey by goo Research into IT device security, the second time they have conducted this survey, the first being in November 2012.
Demographics
Between the 7th and 12th of March 2012 1,033 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.9% aged fifty or older.
Here’s a scam virus advert on a tablet:
I seem to remember translating the previous survey, but I cannot find it on the site. Perhaps I got half-way through and decided it wasn’t interesting enough to be published?
Anyway, I’m curious why tablet security is increasing but smartphone staying static. One factor in the tablet rise is no doubt due to Android increasing market share, and curiously enough if all the extra 36 tablet owners in Q1SQ were non-iOS users, and all of them used security software, then the rise from 42.1% to 55.2% is explained, but I’m sure that’s just a numerical fluke. Read the rest of this entry »
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