Over one in six Japanese want a geiger counter | 世論 What Japan Thinks
I subscribe to “Yoron What Japan Thinks”. This guy has gone to the trouble of translating into English the results of online surveys that deal with consumer and life-style trends in Japan, surveys that I wouldn’t couldn’t read in Japanese. These statistics are interesting, but I also liked his comment on irresponsible journalism. I suppose [...]
Email, maps and travel guides most wanted on foreign trips | 世論 What Japan Thinks
let’s have a look at this timely survey from goo Ranking into what uses Japanese would like to make of their mobile phones overseas. via Email, maps and travel guides most wanted on foreign trips | 世論 What Japan Thinks. No. 2 was “using maps to look up routes”. Can you guess what #1 was? [...]
Japanese society in 2011: part 1 of 3 | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Citizens of this collectivist nation think their fellow-citizens are not civic-minded enough and need to have more of it pushed on them. The politicians just got handed a gift with this survey. Note the false dichotomy of question 3, ” Given the two opinions “One should focus more on country and society” and “Satisfying one’s [...]
When Japanese want to be flyjin | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Jumping on the bandwagon, indeed! This survey has nothing to do with the recent earthquake, tsunami, or nuclear crisis. It is just a survey of homesick Tokyoites! The title here is just a poor excuse to try to jump on the flyjin bandwagon, in this survey from goo Ranking into when people who’ve moved to [...]
Over 90% of Japanese have donated cash for Tohoku|世論 What Japan Thinks
The latest survey reported on by iShare was a short look at actions to help towards revitalisation of Tohoku following last month’s earthquake. Demographics On the first of April 2011 853 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.8% of the sample were male, 5.5% in their twenties, [...]
Japanese still support nuclear power | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Just a quick update tonight, a pointer to a post by ampontan regarding a couple of surveys recently conducted into nuclear power. The first survey from the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 4th was conducted between the 1st and 3rd of April 2011, and found that 46% supported continuing with the current level of nuclear power [...]
Chivalry Japanese women would not appreciate | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Speaking of cultural differences, here’s a biggie: “chivalrous behaviour”. Do you open the door for women in Japan? Do you force ladies to go first? Are you sure they appreciate your gallantry? If so, the results of this online poll might surprise you. That people might have different values to us, we can accept. In theory. In [...]
Had enough of your eco lifestyle?
世論What Japan Thinks has translated into English a recent online survey that asked people “Are you tired of your eco-lifestyle?” Note that eco here refers to both ecology and economising. Is this the start of a backlash? Before you answer that, take a look at this instructional video on how to get the answer you [...]
