世論 What Japan Thinks

Just as a change of pace today, I got a wee email from Yume Mirai about her new blog, Japan Diary of Culture. She was kind enough to mention my site in a recent entry, so I am returning the favour through this post! She does mention a few interesting survey results, and one that particularly caught my eye was where she mentions a poll on what Japanese men find attractive in women:

The result showed what kind of women are attractive for Japanese men. Those are having a mild personality ( iyashi kei ), individual ( kosei teki ), graceful ( jyohin ) and intelligent ( chiteki ).

However, another poll I translated on what nationalities people might want to marry suggested that citizens of the USA were the most popular country for wives, but I certainly wouldn’t describe the average American woman as having a mild personality, and I’m a bit sceptical on graceful too!

Anyway, it’s a nice site, and I do like hearing genuine voices, so I can recommend you visit.

Talking about genuine voices, I also like Mari’s Diary: Me and Tokyo, who was also kind enough to write a short entry about my blog. I’ve linked to her a good number of times as she has articles on many aspects of Japanese life. There’s a vast quantity of content there, and again it’s a very real and personal collection of opinions on her life in Tokyo.

Finally, in contrast to these two blogs by Japanese, Tokyo Times is Lee Chapman’s blog on his life as a gaijin in Japan. He is sometimes cynical about what he sees, but he never gets bitter, a trap that many other gaijin blogs fall into. He’s also mainly responsible for getting that article spread around the world, plucking my blog from obscurity. To insignificance.