What Japan Thinks

The Cabinet Office Japan recently released the results of a survey they conducted into citizens’ lifestyles. I translated a survey on the same topic in 2007, and 2005, if you wish to cross-reference. Demographics Between the 13th of October and the 6th of November 2011 10,000 members of the public who were randomly selected from [...]

goo Ranking recently took a look at what’s so charming about short people, for both what women find attractive about short men and what men find attractive about short women. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of [...]

Having done healing Japanese women recently, I now present the female version via goo Ranking, looking at the features of healing-type women. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, [...]

goo Ranking took a look at when women get totally disillusioned with the object of their affection. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% [...]

With a lot of money to be made these days in producing casual games, both single player and multiplayer online, this survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into social gaming was quite an eye-opener for me. Demographics Between the 16th and 20th of January 2012 1,077 members of the goo Research online [...]

japan.internet.com recently reported on a sruvey by goo Research, their third regular survey into mobile phone users’ email usage. Note that mobile phone here covers both existing feature phones and smartphones. Demographics Between the 16th and 18th of January 2012 1,086 members of the computer-based goo Research monitor group who had also registered as mobile [...]

goo Ranking recently looked at painful experiences people had when confessing their love to another. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their [...]

goo Ranking had a survey that might be quite applicable to many of my readers, if the tales that I’ve heard of one-to-one English lessons with bored housewives are to be believed, as they took a look at what married people should not get up to one-on-one with someone else’s spouse of the opposite sex. [...]

japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into internet television, which is basically a television that instead of (or is it “along with”?) getting a signal over a cable or radio waves, it uses the internet to obtain its content. Demographics Between the 10th and 12th of January 2012 1,093 members of [...]

I recently got this interesting set of statistics on home appliance market share, from a survey conducted by GfK Marketing Service Japan. The data was collected from a database called ACSISS-E that is updated daily based on sales in a representative sample of Japanese electrical superstores. The report named the top three brands in each [...]