世論 What Japan Thinks

With お歳暮, oseibo, the end of year gift-giving season upon us, perhaps you need to send a present to someone and don’t know what is best? Not to worry, goo Rankings recently published the top 30 edible Oseibo gifts people would be happy to receive. As usual, we just have a ranking as a relative number of votes for each gift.
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goo Research recently carried out a survey on Oseibo gifts, the traditional end of year gift-giving period in Japan, in conjunction with Yomiuri Shimbun and NTT Resonance. Just 1,079 people were questioned from their internet monitor group, but no breakdown by age or sex is reported, nor is the sample size for each individual question noted.

Luckily at my place of work there is no Oseibo bribery gift-giving custom from employee to boss, but we do get the occasional free calendar or diaries from associated companies, and a friend of the family usually gives us a couple of jars of instant coffee.
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