Nameplates on Japanese houses and flats
iShare recently published a curious set of results from a survey they conducted into nameplates outside Japanese homes.
Demographics
Between the 17th and 22nd of December 2009 531 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.2% of the sample were male, 33.3% in their twenties, 34.3% in their thirties, and 32.4% in their forties.
One interesting fact I recently learnt about Google Street View Japan is that in responce to claims about privacy infringement, as well as blurring out faces and car registration plates as they do elsewhere, they also blanked out nameplates for Japan only.
Read the rest of this entry »
Subscribe to feed