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Japanese’s most traumatic foreign horror films 25 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
The time for watching horror movies in Japan is not Halloween, but mid-summer, for the cooling effect of chills down one’s spine. However, this survey from goo Ranking looked at which foreign horror f...
Mobile operator’s mail most popular text communication tool in Japan 20 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
japan.internet.com reported on a recent survey by goo Research looking at electronic text-based communication, the second time such a survey has been performed; the first survey was also presented on ...
Facebook makes you go bald, or something like that 19 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
Ginza HS Clinic recently released a bit of curious survey that tried to establish a link between going bald and SNS. Some of you might remember a similarly dodgy survey from them (and headline from me...
Beach FAILs 18 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
Today is the last day of my summer holidays, and although I didn’t go to the beach – indeed, I’ve never been to the beach in Japan – this survey from goo Ranking into slightly painful to behold women’...
iPhone satisfaction as high as ever 14 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
Cross Marketing recently conducted a survey into iPhone5 satisfaction levels, and interestingly choosing to contrast satisfaction levels between users of the two carriers who offer the phone, au and S...
Single working women: one in three can live without love 12 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
There’s been a lot of surveys over the past few years about single Japanese and their widespread disinterest in matters of love, so as another datapoint I present this survey from the Nikkei newspaper...
What people tend to get up to at summer music festivals 11 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Following on from Disneyland, another big summer event is attending a festival. This ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at what sorts of things tend to happen at music festivals. Demographics Be...
Disneyland behaviours everyone ends up doing 11 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
It’s now the holiday week in Japan, and that means that Disneyland and Disney Sea will no doubt be packed to the gunwales with tourists. (That reminds me, I must find some statistics on the most popul...
Yahoo! most popular smartphone weather app 9 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into weather forecasts, and in their report they focused on smartphone weather-related apps. Demographics Between the 26th ...
Pets and babies in Japan 5 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
Pet Soken, a pet insurance arm of PETOFFICE, recently conducted a survey into pets and babies, in particular to see how parents allow them to interact. Demographics Between the 5th of June and the 2...