Brollies in Japan
With the rainy season soon approaching (or already approached, if you live in Okinawa), the fifth of Japan’s unique four seasons, MyVoice surveyed their community to find out what they thought regarding umbrellas. At the start of May they got 14,823 replies to their web-based questionnaire. 54% of the sample was female, 4% were in their teens, 21% in their twenties, 39% in their thirties, 24% in their forties, and 12% aged fifty or older.
I own, or at least frequently use perhaps four brollies; my most commonly used is one from Huis Ten Bosch, followed by an extremely tatty fold-up tartan effort I keep in the office for emergencies. My favourite is a Tarepanda one, and I have a slightly posh fold-up brollie with a street scene of Berlin on it.
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