MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not HOW HAS THE JAPANESE MOBILE CARRIER MARKET CHANGED? This short survey report from MMD Labo looked at the Spring 2021 mobile service provider situation. The full survey is much more detailed, so if you want a deep dive, please visit their site and purchase the full survey results. Note that ahamo is docomo’s cheap plan, povo au’s, and LINEMO COVID-19 AND THE USAGE OF LARGE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SITES This survey from MMD Labo looked at people’s usage of large electronic commerce sites during the pandemic.. Our family’s use of shopping sites hasn’t really changed. I still prefer the old-fashioned way of actually going to a shop, and I’m quite happy to place my trust in facemasks and antibacterial lotions. ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more EIGHTIES MOVIES JAPANESE WANT TO WATCH AGAIN ON THE BIG This ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at movies from the 1980s that people want to watch in the cinema again.. I’m familiar with all the Hollywood movies listed here bar Big (I’ve only seen snippets), and about half of the Japanese ones. JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in.. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature in the top ten here. JAPANESE WEB BROWSER PREFERENCES This recent survey from iShare into web browsers contains some fascinating and surprising data on preferences amongst a quite experienced sample of internet surfers.. Demographics. Between the 14th and 17th of December 2009 468 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.3% of the sample were male, 33.3% in their twenties, 34.6% in ATHLETE’S FOOT AND OTHER SELF-MEDICATION IN JAPAN I used to have athlete’s foot, but Japanese over-the-counter medicines cured it pretty promptly and it has never returned, mainly due, I suspect, to living in much more hygienic conditions since I got married! To Read more TWENTY MOST UNFORGIVEABLE JAPANESE BATHING HABITS One of the most common bits of advice given to foreigners before they come to Japan regards bathing habits and customs, so perhaps this survey from goo Ranking into unforgiveable bathing habits of other people will serve as a further reference to visitors to these shores. Demographics From the 6th to the 9th of July MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not HOW HAS THE JAPANESE MOBILE CARRIER MARKET CHANGED? This short survey report from MMD Labo looked at the Spring 2021 mobile service provider situation. The full survey is much more detailed, so if you want a deep dive, please visit their site and purchase the full survey results. Note that ahamo is docomo’s cheap plan, povo au’s, and LINEMO COVID-19 AND THE USAGE OF LARGE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SITES This survey from MMD Labo looked at people’s usage of large electronic commerce sites during the pandemic.. Our family’s use of shopping sites hasn’t really changed. I still prefer the old-fashioned way of actually going to a shop, and I’m quite happy to place my trust in facemasks and antibacterial lotions. ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more EIGHTIES MOVIES JAPANESE WANT TO WATCH AGAIN ON THE BIG This ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at movies from the 1980s that people want to watch in the cinema again.. I’m familiar with all the Hollywood movies listed here bar Big (I’ve only seen snippets), and about half of the Japanese ones. JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in.. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature in the top ten here. JAPANESE WEB BROWSER PREFERENCES This recent survey from iShare into web browsers contains some fascinating and surprising data on preferences amongst a quite experienced sample of internet surfers.. Demographics. Between the 14th and 17th of December 2009 468 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.3% of the sample were male, 33.3% in their twenties, 34.6% in ATHLETE’S FOOT AND OTHER SELF-MEDICATION IN JAPAN I used to have athlete’s foot, but Japanese over-the-counter medicines cured it pretty promptly and it has never returned, mainly due, I suspect, to living in much more hygienic conditions since I got married! To Read more TWENTY MOST UNFORGIVEABLE JAPANESE BATHING HABITS One of the most common bits of advice given to foreigners before they come to Japan regards bathing habits and customs, so perhaps this survey from goo Ranking into unforgiveable bathing habits of other people will serve as a further reference to visitors to these shores. Demographics From the 6th to the 9th of July THE GREATEST STOCK CONSOLE CONTROLLERS RANKED Now here’s a topic with the ability to start fights, goo Ranking asking Japanese to choose the easiest to use stock console controller.. I was never a console person; I once had a Sega something or other, but all I really remember of it was too many buttons. JAPANESE KANJI WITH SURPRISING CHINESE MEANINGS goo Ranking recently took a look at which Japanese kanji had surprising Chinese meanings. Demographics Between the 23rd and 26th of March 2011 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 24.7% in their

thirties, 23.7%

SECURITY SOFTWARE IN HOME COMPUTERS This survey from @nifty into security software found a surprisingly large number of people paying for their virus protection. A long time ago I used to use paid-for virus checking, but ever since Microsoft

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WHAT WASHOKU MEANS TO THE JAPANESE With Washoku, Japanese traditional home cooking, being awarded UNESCO status as an intangible cultural heritage, this recent survey from Kikkoman, a soy sauce maker, into awareness of Washoku provides some useful background data.. Demographics. Over the 27th and 28th of November 2013 830 housewives between the ages of 20 and 69 completed a private internet-based questionnaire. ENGLISH WORDS, BUT JAPANESE MEANINGS wasei eigo, Japanese-style English! How many of these expressions that the Japanese didn’t know were Japanese-English, as reported by goo Ranking, did you have to mentally double-check?The survey was conducted between the 28th and 30th of August 2007. THE GREATEST NES GAMES, AS CHOSEN BY THE JAPANESE This survey from goo Ranking was a look at which famous Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game best represented the last 30 years in the eyes of the respondents.. I’m a bit surprised to see that Donkey Kong was relatively low; Pacman I understand as it was not a NES original, but Donkey Kong I COVID-19 LIFESTYLE AND SIDE JOBS With people spending more time at home due either to work at home policies or being furloughed, it’s perhaps not surprising that some are looking at side jobs, the subject of this COVID-19-related survey from MacroMill.. Side jobs actually used to be banned by many companies until about a year or two ago when there was a big push to allow it, although I cannot remember what the driver for WINNING THE YEAR-END JUMBO LOTTERY Here’s a bit of a short survey that has rather interesting results; iShare looked at the end of the year Jumbo Lottery.. Demographics. Between the 21st and 25th of November 2008 430 members of the CLUB BBQ free online email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.5% of the sample were male, 13.3% in their twenties, 54.4% in their thirties, 23.5% in their YOUNG JAPANESE DESIRE ENGLISH I am always amazed at quite how high the desire to learn English is in Japan, as despite at least 5 years in school ability levels are pretty atrocious on the whole, and even given Nova’s demise there seems to be no fall-off in the popularity of study. INFRARED TOP MEANS FOR EXCHANGING EMAIL ADDRESSES In the west, I hear that Bluetooth-based telephone number and email address exchange is the standard way. However, this recent survey conducted by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into mobile phone address books showed very different habits in Japan. Demographics Between the 30th of July and the 3rd of August 2008 1,001

members

世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS “Greasy Spoon” is perhaps an exaggeration for some of these places listed in this goo Ranking survey into Japan’s tastiest set meal chain restaurants.. The basic features of a set meal in Japan is usually one main meat dish like pork cutlet or boiled beef, with rice, miso soup and pickles, and maybe a small salad or other side dish, all often for under 1,000 yen. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. HOW HAS THE JAPANESE MOBILE CARRIER MARKET CHANGED? This short survey report from MMD Labo looked at the Spring 2021 mobile service provider situation. The full survey is much more detailed, so if you want a deep dive, please visit their site and purchase the full survey results. Note that ahamo is docomo’s cheap plan, povo au’s, and LINEMO ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted QR CODE-BASED PAYMENT METHODS IN JAPAN Contactless payments, be they IC chip or barcode-based are perhaps becoming more popular due to COVID-19 making physical cash a potential transmission vector, so this survey from MMD Labo into smartphone QR Code-based payments may reveal some trends in Japan.. I mostly use smartphone-based public transport IC chip-based payments, JR East’s (the major train operator in the Tokyo area) SUICA. HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits.. Demographics. Between the 31st of March and the 2nd of April 2010 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

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FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS “Greasy Spoon” is perhaps an exaggeration for some of these places listed in this goo Ranking survey into Japan’s tastiest set meal chain restaurants.. The basic features of a set meal in Japan is usually one main meat dish like pork cutlet or boiled beef, with rice, miso soup and pickles, and maybe a small salad or other side dish, all often for under 1,000 yen. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. HOW HAS THE JAPANESE MOBILE CARRIER MARKET CHANGED? This short survey report from MMD Labo looked at the Spring 2021 mobile service provider situation. The full survey is much more detailed, so if you want a deep dive, please visit their site and purchase the full survey results. Note that ahamo is docomo’s cheap plan, povo au’s, and LINEMO ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted QR CODE-BASED PAYMENT METHODS IN JAPAN Contactless payments, be they IC chip or barcode-based are perhaps becoming more popular due to COVID-19 making physical cash a potential transmission vector, so this survey from MMD Labo into smartphone QR Code-based payments may reveal some trends in Japan.. I mostly use smartphone-based public transport IC chip-based payments, JR East’s (the major train operator in the Tokyo area) SUICA. HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits.. Demographics. Between the 31st of March and the 2nd of April 2010 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKS “Greasy Spoon” is perhaps an exaggeration for some of these places listed in this goo Ranking survey into Japan’s tastiest set meal chain restaurants.. The basic features of a set meal in Japan is usually one main meat dish like pork cutlet or boiled beef, with rice, miso soup and pickles, and maybe a small salad or other side dish, all often for under 1,000 yen. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, Read more QR CODE-BASED PAYMENT METHODS IN JAPAN Contactless payments, be they IC chip or barcode-based are perhaps becoming more popular due to COVID-19 making physical cash a potential transmission vector, so this survey from MMD Labo into smartphone QR Code-based payments may reveal some trends in Japan.. I mostly use smartphone-based public transport IC chip-based payments, JR East’s (the major train operator in the Tokyo area) SUICA. HOW HAS THE JAPANESE MOBILE CARRIER MARKET CHANGED? This short survey report from MMD Labo looked at the Spring 2021 mobile service provider situation. The full survey is much more detailed, so if you want a deep dive, please visit their site and purchase the full survey results. Note that ahamo is docomo’s cheap plan, povo au’s, and LINEMO ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted JAPANESE NUTRITIONAL DRINKS One thing you soon notice in Japan is that a lot of people drink little bottles of well, I’ve never really quite worked out exactly what is in these little bottles, but LIFESTYLE DISEASES IN JAPAN The big health buzzword last year and this has been metabolic syndrome, or metabo as it is abbreviated in Japan. For Japanese people to be diagnosed as metabolic syndrome you must have at least three

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JAPANESE SCHOOLKIDS AND MOBILE PHONES Recently there has been a lot of moral panic (some justified, some unjustified) about schoolkids and their mobile phone usage in Japan, with a number of schools introducing various bans on TWENTY MOST UNFORGIVEABLE JAPANESE BATHING HABITS One of the most common bits of advice given to foreigners before they come to Japan regards bathing habits and customs, so perhaps this survey from goo Ranking into unforgiveable bathing habits of other people will serve as a further reference to visitors to these shores. Demographics From the 6th to the 9th of July JAPANESE BOWEL MOVEMENTS Now here’s a rather delicate subject to conduct a survey on! From my point of view, the three big everyday lifestyle ailments many Japanese, especially women, seem to suffer from are stiff shoulders, cold hands and feet, and constipation. 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

EIGHTIES MOVIES JAPANESE WANT TO WATCH AGAIN ON THE BIG This ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at movies from the 1980s that people want to watch in the cinema again.. I’m familiar with all the Hollywood movies listed here bar Big (I’ve only seen snippets), and about half of the Japanese ones. WHAT DO THE JAPANESE REALLY BELIEVE? Glori Taylor · January 28, 2015 at 13:43 Geuss what Charlotte as a Christan you are going to spread the word of Jesus Christ to other people and try to help others. People like you need Jesus what you just showed your true face you sound arogant, selfish,ignorant and

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FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their JAPANESE PET NAMES: POPULAR BIRD, RABBIT AND FERRET NAMES I’m sure there must be someone out there interested in this ranking survey from Anicom, a major pet insurance company, into the most popular names for birds, rabbits and ferrets.This survey was conducted on the 31st of March last year (2012) by looking MINERAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN Yes. 46.2%. No ( to Q10) 53.3%. Don’t know (to end of survey) 0.5%. By area, not surprisingly the most heavily built-up areas, the Kanto region around Tokyo and the Kinki region around Osaka had the two highest percentages of drinkers or users, but in third place was the very rural northern island of Hokkaido. By family size, the larger the BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, Read more JAPANESE NUTRITIONAL DRINKS One thing you soon notice in Japan is that a lot of people drink little bottles of well, I’ve never really quite worked out exactly what is in these little bottles, but JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

WHAT DO THE JAPANESE REALLY BELIEVE? Glori Taylor · January 28, 2015 at 13:43 Geuss what Charlotte as a Christan you are going to spread the word of Jesus Christ to other people and try to help others. People like you need Jesus what you just showed your true face you sound arogant, selfish,ignorant and

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FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

MINERAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN Yes. 46.2%. No ( to Q10) 53.3%. Don’t know (to end of survey) 0.5%. By area, not surprisingly the most heavily built-up areas, the Kanto region around Tokyo and the Kinki region around Osaka had the two highest percentages of drinkers or users, but in third place was the very rural northern island of Hokkaido. By family size, the larger the JAPANESE PET NAMES: POPULAR BIRD, RABBIT AND FERRET NAMES I’m sure there must be someone out there interested in this ranking survey from Anicom, a major pet insurance company, into the most popular names for birds, rabbits and ferrets.This survey was conducted on the 31st of March last year (2012) by looking BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not JAPANESE NUTRITIONAL DRINKS One thing you soon notice in Japan is that a lot of people drink little bottles of well, I’ve never really quite worked out exactly what is in these little bottles, but JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

WHAT DO THE JAPANESE REALLY BELIEVE? Glori Taylor · January 28, 2015 at 13:43 Geuss what Charlotte as a Christan you are going to spread the word of Jesus Christ to other people and try to help others. People like you need Jesus what you just showed your true face you sound arogant, selfish,ignorant and

more but i

FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

MINERAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN Yes. 46.2%. No ( to Q10) 53.3%. Don’t know (to end of survey) 0.5%. By area, not surprisingly the most heavily built-up areas, the Kanto region around Tokyo and the Kinki region around Osaka had the two highest percentages of drinkers or users, but in third place was the very rural northern island of Hokkaido. By family size, the larger the JAPANESE PET NAMES: POPULAR BIRD, RABBIT AND FERRET NAMES I’m sure there must be someone out there interested in this ranking survey from Anicom, a major pet insurance company, into the most popular names for birds, rabbits and ferrets.This survey was conducted on the 31st of March last year (2012) by looking BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS Not surprisingly, Tokyo is the most popular, and I presume people were mostly voting for the main metropolitan area, not the suburbs. Hokkaido being second is not a surprise either, although the winters are too harsh for my tastes. Kanagawa, in particular the prefectural capital of Yokohama, is the best of the top three for me. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN The first question one might have is what is diversity; the immediate thing that springs to my mind, at least, is having an anti-discrimination policy at work covering race, creed, gender and sexual orientation. However, Read more HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not JAPANESE NUTRITIONAL DRINKS One thing you soon notice in Japan is that a lot of people drink little bottles of well, I’ve never really quite worked out exactly what is in these little bottles, but JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

WHAT DO THE JAPANESE REALLY BELIEVE? Glori Taylor · January 28, 2015 at 13:43 Geuss what Charlotte as a Christan you are going to spread the word of Jesus Christ to other people and try to help others. People like you need Jesus what you just showed your true face you sound arogant, selfish,ignorant and

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FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES One of my most popular posts of 2009 was this list of male fetishes, so I was glad to see that goo Ranking finally got round to posting women’s secret fetishes.. Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

MINERAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN Yes. 46.2%. No ( to Q10) 53.3%. Don’t know (to end of survey) 0.5%. By area, not surprisingly the most heavily built-up areas, the Kanto region around Tokyo and the Kinki region around Osaka had the two highest percentages of drinkers or users, but in third place was the very rural northern island of Hokkaido. By family size, the larger the JAPANESE PET NAMES: POPULAR BIRD, RABBIT AND FERRET NAMES I’m sure there must be someone out there interested in this ranking survey from Anicom, a major pet insurance company, into the most popular names for birds, rabbits and ferrets.This survey was conducted on the 31st of March last year (2012) by looking BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS The Japanese titles of the Hollywood movies are mostly straight transliterations, but some turn out a bit funny; An Officer and a Gentleman is A Journey of Love and Youth, Karate Kid is Best Kid, Coming to America is. Go to New York, Prince of the Stars, and When Harry Met Sally is Premonition of Lovers. The Japanese titles are

mostly direct

MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS The Japanese titles of the Hollywood movies are mostly straight transliterations, but some turn out a bit funny; An Officer and a Gentleman is A Journey of Love and Youth, Karate Kid is Best Kid, Coming to America is. Go to New York, Prince of the Stars, and When Harry Met Sally is Premonition of Lovers. The Japanese titles are

mostly direct

MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES 20 hours ago · This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not JAPAN’S TASTIEST GREASY SPOON CHAIN Japan’s tastiest greasy spoon chain. “Greasy Spoon” is perhaps an exaggeration for some of these places listed in this goo Ranking survey into Japan’s tastiest set meal chain restaurants. The basic features of a set meal in Japan is usually one main meat dish like pork cutlet or boiled beef, with rice, miso soup and pickles, and

maybe a

ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted LIFESTYLE DISEASES IN JAPAN 13.9%. Overwork, overbusy. 13.4%. Other. 1.0%. Nothing in particular. 4.6%. By sex, most of the worries were pretty balanced, but women were more worried about lack of exercise, eating too much or too much of one thing. Men worried about smoking more than women, 25.8% versus 16.4%, and over twice as many men worried about their drinking. JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS The Japanese titles of the Hollywood movies are mostly straight transliterations, but some turn out a bit funny; An Officer and a Gentleman is A Journey of Love and Youth, Karate Kid is Best Kid, Coming to America is. Go to New York, Prince of the Stars, and When Harry Met Sally is Premonition of Lovers. The Japanese titles are

mostly direct

MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKSE-MONEYLIFESTYLEOPINIONBUSINESSSILLYSTATISTICS The Japanese titles of the Hollywood movies are mostly straight transliterations, but some turn out a bit funny; An Officer and a Gentleman is A Journey of Love and Youth, Karate Kid is Best Kid, Coming to America is. Go to New York, Prince of the Stars, and When Harry Met Sally is Premonition of Lovers. The Japanese titles are

mostly direct

MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. JAPAN’S FAVOURITE CRISPS Let’s find out with goo Ranking what Japan’s favourite crisps (or chips, if you are so inclined) are.. Back in Scotland, it was Walker’s, and usually cheese flavour, but now in Japan it’s sour cream and onion, and Calbee is my favourite brand, although Koikeya’s Pride Potatoes are not bad too. JAPANESE AND MILK DRINKING: PART 2 OF 2 Japanese and milk drinking: part 2 of 2. Given that according to some definition of lactose intolerant, perhaps as much as 90% or more of the Japanese population are lactose intolerant, and seven years ago over 14,000 Japanese drank staphylococcus-infected milk, one might expect to find relatively few milk-drinkers in Japan. JAPANESE ATTITUDES TO WHALING I noticed via Japan Probe, via Scoop NZ, that there was a press release issued by the Institute Of Cetacean Research, which, if Wikipedia’s article is to be trusted, is basically not much more than a front for the Japanese government for justifying whaling.In the press release there is much statistical jiggery-pokery that I shall try to get to the bottom of. FORGIVENESS IN JAPANESE RELATIONSHIPS This Sunday I have a pair of loosely-connected surveys, the first on what would you forgive you partner for doing, for both men forgiving women and women forgiving men.Next up is perhaps why one would forgive one’s other half, namely what aspects of him or her do they like, again both what men like about their women and what women like about

their men.

HOW OVER-SENSITIVE SUNFISH DIE Apparently, sunfish are rather sensitive animals, so are quite prone to keeling over dead. goo Ranking decided to ask people to rank over-sensitive ways that sunfish may die. Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGE's Research Plus to conduct this survey, where between the 18th and 23rd of July 2014 500 members of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

HOW THE INTERNET CHANGES READING HABITS IN JAPAN How the internet changes reading habits in Japan. By Ken Y-N ( April 17, 2010 at 20:58) · Filed under Internet, Lifestyle, Polls. A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits. WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their MAJORITY WANT VACCINATION, MANY OTHERS WANT SIDE-EFFECT Majority want vaccination, many others want side-effect reassurance. Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest. This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness. Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. MAKING BOOKINGS ON SMARTPHONES 16 hours ago · This straightforward survey from MMD Labo looked at internet reservations by smartphone. Looking at the options, I’m surprised that “travel” or “flights” do not appear on the list. Given that “other” is less than 2%, they must have been explicitly excluded, but for what reason is not JAPAN’S TASTIEST GREASY SPOON CHAIN Japan’s tastiest greasy spoon chain. “Greasy Spoon” is perhaps an exaggeration for some of these places listed in this goo Ranking survey into Japan’s tastiest set meal chain restaurants. The basic features of a set meal in Japan is usually one main meat dish like pork cutlet or boiled beef, with rice, miso soup and pickles, and

maybe a

ONLINE LIVE MUSIC CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN This survey from MMD Labo looked at the safest way to enjoy live music these days, viewing online live music. I’ve not watched any online live music free or paid, although over the New Year my favourite Japanese band, Southern All Stars, did an online live concert (they normally see in the New Year with an in-person concert) with tickets at 4,500 yen each, and I was sorely tempted LIFESTYLE DISEASES IN JAPAN 13.9%. Overwork, overbusy. 13.4%. Other. 1.0%. Nothing in particular. 4.6%. By sex, most of the worries were pretty balanced, but women were more worried about lack of exercise, eating too much or too much of one thing. Men worried about smoking more than women, 25.8% versus 16.4%, and over twice as many men worried about their drinking. JAPANESE PREFECTURES I’D WANT TO TRY LIVING IN Japanese prefectures I’d want to try living in. This is the first survey for a while from goo Ranking not featuring a long list of quite unknown to me celebrities, a look at which prefectures in Japan Japanese themselves might want to try living in. I’ve lived in a grand total of three (out of 47) prefectures, which I see all feature

in the

WHAT JAPANESE KIDS GET UP TO AFTER SCHOOL 1,500 children completed the survey successfully. 60.1% were girls, 2.9% were in the first year of elementary school (age 6 or 7), 5.5% in second year, 13.7% in third year, 22.9% in forth year, 27.7% in fifth year, and 27.4% in sixth year. The most surprising thing to me is probably Q2, with not more than 3% met at the school gates by their FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE MEN Here’s a survey that I really should have illustrated with some pictures, but digging around Google in Japanese almost every match I got was definitely not safe for work! Hopefully text only will pass

any Read more

FAVOURITE FETISHES OF JAPANESE FEMALES Demographics. Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. BILLY’S BOOT CAMP BUILDS NORIKA FUJIWARA’S BODY: PART 2 OF Billy’s Boot Camp builds Norika Fujiwara’s body: part 2 of 2. With almost three-quarters of Japanese reckoning that they themselves need to lose a few kilos, and with Billy’s Boot Camp flying off the shelves, not least because for men metabolic syndrome is the in cause of concern, and for women the summer and the associated revealing 世論 WHAT JAPAN THINKS From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys.

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JAPAN’S MOST RELAXING COFFEE CHAIN By Ken Y-N ( June 8, 2020 at 01:31) · Filed under Polls

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goo Ranking asked their readership to choose the most relaxing coffee

shop chain in Japan

.

Looking at the top three, when I lived in Kansai a friend of mine would post Facebook updates from Komeda Coffee, of which I was rather jealous as there were none near me, so when I moved to Tokyo I was keen to try, but the only one I’ve been to was a bit of an

anticlimax.

Starbucks is often the very opposite of relaxing as there is often people busy talking on the phone, although I know of two in my town that are usually phone-free, and as long as I don’t think too much about the price they are quite relaxing; the French press of freshly-ground beans in particular is good. Of all the Doutors I’ve been in, only one was approaching nice, let alone relaxing. However, the cheap coffee keeps me coming back. My most relaxing is Tully’s; I’ve never been in a bad one and their plain latte is good value, but Saint Marc’s gets most of my business; there’s one the station before the office, so if I’m early in the morning, it’s just right to perk up and wind down with a hot coffee before work. Where’s your most relaxing coffee? Read the rest of this entry »

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LIFESTYLE CHANGES UNDER COVID-19 By Ken Y-N ( June 6, 2020 at 01:48) · Filed under Business

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The company Link and Communication, who make an AI health advisor mobile app called Calomama

,

surveyed their users about mental and physical health changes since the State of Emergency was declared

.

I’m working from home, and my walking distance has been reduced from an average of 10,000 steps to about 500 or so. However, it’s been great for my stress levels, even though I find myself doing much more overtime than I did in the office. Due to the wonders of modern technology, I can log into my beefy work PC and do 95% of what I need

to do.

Even better, the company has extended work at home for the forseeable future; the target is less than 50% per team commuting, but I think our team is under 10% right now. Here’s a random Japan home office that is much more exiting than

mine:

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ITALIAN AND GYOZA MOST WANTED NEARBY CHAINS By Ken Y-N ( June 1, 2020 at 01:46) · Filed under Polls

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Japan has many cheap (and not so cheap) chain restaurants and cafes but I’m sure everyone has a favourite they wish were closer. This was the question goo Ranking asked, which chain restaurant do people most wish would open a new branch nearby them

.

I’d vote for Tully’s Coffee (random photo from a snack there attached); I find them very pleasant and with very drinkable coffee and cheap pasta lunches. Unfortunately the nearest one (four train stops away) suddenly closed just before the lockdown. Even though I live beside an express stop train station, all we have is the greasy Chinese spoon Bamiyan and a privately-owned traditional style coffee shop; a nice Tully’s or similar would improve the neighbourhood no end! Which chain do you wish was closer? Read the rest of this entry »

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Trackback / Pingback (1) JAPAN AND AMERICA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP; PART 3 OF 3 By Ken Y-N ( May 30, 2020 at 01:31) · Filed under Politics

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This large-scale survey from NHK’s Broadcast Culture Research Centre looked at Japan and America

,

with particular focus on the current Trump regime. This will be posted over three nights in chunks of around 9 questions each. The final part of this survey shows further how Japan perceives that America has lost its way, yet Japan still finds the country is it’s

best friend.

Interestingly, despite Japan’s Prime Minister being excessively friendly to Trump, the people rate Obama as the greatest post-war

president.

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JAPAN AND AMERICA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP; PART 2 OF 3 By Ken Y-N ( May 29, 2020 at 01:22) · Filed under Politics

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This large-scale survey from NHK’s Broadcast Culture Research Centre looked at Japan and America

,

with particular focus on the current Trump regime. This will be posted over three nights in chunks of around 9 questions each. Although the Japanese press on the whole lauded Trump’s overtures to North Korea and made a big thing of the relatives of the Japanese hostages talking to Trump and getting a nice positive soundbite out of it, it was obvious to me that Trump was spouting any old nonsense in an effort to get his ratings. Satisfyingly, the Japanese public seems generally to share similar opinions. Read the rest of this entry »

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JAPAN AND AMERICA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP; PART 1 OF 3 By Ken Y-N ( May 28, 2020 at 01:15) · Filed under Politics

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This large-scale survey from NHK’s Broadcast Culture Research Centre looked at Japan and America

,

with particular focus on the current Trump regime. This will be posted over three nights in chunks of around 9 questions each. I’m slightly surprised at the relatively positive view of many aspects of Trump’s policies, of not at their effects on Japan, but perhaps that is more a reflection of my media consumption. Japanese broadcast media mainly treats him as a normal president; only his more massive gaffes make headlines here. Read the rest of this entry »

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SAIZERIYA’S TASTIEST MENU ITEM By Ken Y-N ( May 18, 2020 at 01:19) · Filed under Polls

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A previous ranking rated Saizeriya as the tastiest family restaurant

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so as a sort-of follow-up, this time goo Ranking asked what people rated as the tastiest Saizeriaya menu item

.

Although I love Saizeriya too I cannot agree with this ranking at all! Their doria (grilled risotto kind of thing) is unappetising, and their “pizza” is made with a non-yeast (probably cardboard) crust – the pictured item is their mushroom pizza, which is no be What’s your favourite? Read the rest of this entry »

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JAPANESE RATE THEIR GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS By Ken Y-N ( May 11, 2020 at 01:07) · Filed under Politics

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This survey was conducted by the Mainichi Newspaper and the Social Survey Research Center into COVID-19 response

.

I’ve linked to the English version, but hopefully my tables are

easier to read.

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Trackback / Pingback (1) HOW JAPANESE ARE LIVING WITH COVID-19 By Ken Y-N ( May 5, 2020 at 01:44) · Filed under Polls

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This survey is ancient in terms of the progression of COVID-19, but there’s still interesting figures in this survey from @nifty conducted at the end of March into COVID-19

. This survey

was conducted before the Olympics were postponed and the state of

emergency declared.

So far I’d put myself in the not really worried category; it is of course a serious disease and lockdowns are a justified response, but at the moment in Japan things seem reasonably under control and the collapse of the medical system seems to have been largely avoided, although in-hospital infections are a bit too widespread for my

liking.

About the only thing I’ve avoided is going to the ENT clinic for my hayfever this season as I didn’t fancy sitting in a packed waiting room breathing potentially virus-laden air, so luckily first I had a bottle of nose spray left over from last year, and second an OTC version of the identical medicine was approved this year, so I could just visit my much quieter local chemist to replenish my supply. Read the rest of this entry »

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BRANDS JAPANESE WERE SUPRISED TO FIND WERE JAPANESE By Ken Y-N ( May 1, 2020 at 02:12) · Filed under Polls

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I’m back, and with some free time let’s try a translation I started last year; brands that the Japanese were surprised to learn were actually Japan-born

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Samantha Thavasa television advertisements have an extremely American feel with supermodels frolicing around New York in fancy frocks, so I too was surprised to find they were actually Japanese. However, here is some proof of their Japaneseness. Wilkinson was another surprise; I thought they were just a made under licence foreign brand, but it was actually founded in Kobe by a Briton

named Wilkinson

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using naturally carbonated mineral water. But what on earth is Sony doing in ninth place? Read the rest of this entry »

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