Mother’s Day in Japan
With Mother’s Day fast approaching – 14th of May this year – japan.internet.com, in conjunction with JR Tokai Express Research, performed a timely investigation of what people thought about Mother’s Day presents. They surveyed 331 public and private company employees, 81.9% male, by means of an internet questionnaire. The age breakdown was 13.3% in their twenties, 42.3% in their thirties, 37.2% in their forties, 6.9% in their fifties, and just 0.3%, or one person, aged 60 or older. Everybody in the survey had a living mother, apparently, or if not they passed a present to their spouse’s mother or some other maternal figure.
Personally, I’ve only the once ever sent my mother a present, as she doesn’t believe in all the stupid commercialisation of it. That present was in fact a prize I won in a competition in a supermarket!
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