Romance most popular cellphone novels with Japanese women
Posted by Ken Y-N on 6 October 2008
A few months ago there was a couple of articles in the US press with suspect (or just poorly-reported) statistics on cellphone literature in Japan, but at the time I didn’t have any good data to refute the stories with. However, this weekend not one, but two surveys come along, one from goo Re...[Read More]
Mysterious behaviour of Japanese women and men
Posted by Ken Y-N on 5 October 2008
The ways of the opposite sex are baffling to many of us, so this little bit of frivolity from goo Ranking looked at what people can’t figure out about the opposite sex, for both men being baffled by women and women being baffled by men Demographics Between the 19th and 21st of August 2008 1,02...[Read More]
Japanese taste
Posted by Ken Y-N on 4 October 2008
Another recent survey from MyVoice looked this time at the sense of taste. Demographics Over the first five days of September 2008 15,245 members of the MyVoice internet community completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54% of the sample were female, 1% in their teens, 15% in their twentie...[Read More]
Removable media security at work in Japan
Posted by Ken Y-N on 3 October 2008
With the Winny file sharing program being the main vector for data loss (that we hear of, anyway) in Japan, what about another way, through careless use of removable media at work? This was the topic of a recent survey by Marsh Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com. Demographics Between the 17th...[Read More]
Japan in 2001, according to Google
Posted by Ken Y-N on 2 October 2008
You might have seen that to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Google has put their index from 2001 online. Let’s try a few searches and see how Japan looked then: Ken Y-N was Welsh What Japan Thinks thought about privatisation Japan Probe was favourable to Microsoft Japundit did not exist Dan...[Read More]