Top status symbols in Japan
For this week’s lighter look at opinions, goo Ranking investigated what makes people feel are men’s status symbols, for both men and women.
Demographics
Between the 24th and 26th of September 2008 1,044 members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 5.8% in their teens, 12.7% in their twenties, 32.3% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 12.3% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
The car being number one should be no suprise to anyone, but I’m surprised with a watch being so high, higher than tailored suits, but perhaps that reflects a conservatism in Japanese dress.
My car is a train, I work in computers, my degree’s from a university probably no-one in Japan’s heard of, and my watch cost 10,000 ANA air miles. From the women’s list, I can only claim to have 7 and 8 as marks of status!
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