Table: Ranking of popular Pokémon, rank 200-400 Rank Pokemon English Deutsch Français Korean 200 マリルリ Azumarill Azumarill Azumarill 마릴리 202 エレキブル Electivire Elevoltek Elekable 에레키블 203 ヒメグマ Teddiursa Teddiursa Teddiursa…

The official Pokémon movie site "www.pokemon-movie.jp" conducted a populality vote of Pokémon characters. According to it, the most popular Pokémon is "ゲッコウガ (Greninja/Quajutsu/Amphinobi/개굴닌자)" among 720 Pokémon characters. Table:…

The following data show the number of visitors by zoo in Japan in 2009. Unit: visitors/year Rank Zoo Location Visitors, yearly 1 Ueno Zoo Tokyo 3,028,386 2 Asahiyama Zoo Asahikawa 2,463,274 3 Higashiyama Zoo Nagoya 2,284,853 4 Tennoji Zoo …

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

Japan Racing Association (JRA) runs the nationwide horse racing. There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUINELLA (record p…

Japan Racing Association (JRA) runs the nationwide horse racing. There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUINELLA (record p…

In Japan, the nationwide horse racing is run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). There are 8 types of betting ticket in JRA races; WIN (record payoff) PLACE (record payoff) BRACKET QUINELLA (record payoff) QUINELLA PLACE (record payoff) QUI…

There are two types of horse racing in Japan. One is the nationwide horse racing run by Japan Racing Association (JRA). The other is horse racing run by local government. The following shows the lists of racecourses in Japan, as of 2016. R…

Masked Riders (Kamen Riders) are Japanese bug eyed superheroes in the TV series. It has been aired since 1971. As of 2016, total 118 Masked Riders are introduced. Asahi-Shimbun newspaper conducted a popularity vote of Masked Riders. n=1295…

Here is the list of the all-time top 100 best-selling manga titles in Japan, No. 103 to No.134. No.103 The Tale of Genji 17 million No.103 Wangan Midnight 17 million No.103 Master Keaton 17 million No.106 Soul Eater 16 million No.107 Magi:…

Here is the list of the all-time top 100 best-selling manga titles in Japan, No. 75 to No.102. No.75 BOYS BE 25 million No.75 Yukan Club 25 million No.75 Angel Heart 25 million No.75 Miyuki 25 million No.79 Hikaru no Go 24.6 million No.80 …

Here is the list of the all-time top 100 best-selling manga titles in Japan, No. 54 to No.74. No.54 Dr. Slump 35 million No.55 Chibi Maruko-chan 32 million No.56 Jarinko Chie 30 million No.56 COBRA 30 million No.56 Chameleon 30 million No.…

Here is the list of the all-time top 100 best-selling manga titles in Japan, No. 34 to No.53. No.34 Yu Yu Hakusho 49.3 million copies were printed No.35 Dokaben 48 million No.35 Initial D 48 million No.37 BLACK JACK 45 million No.37 Shizuk…

A manga related site mangazenkan.com summarized the all-time best-selling manga titles in Japan. Here is the list of those manga titles. It is the 2016 version. 2018 version is http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/All-time_Top_100_Best-selli…

A magazine Nikkei Trendy reported 2015 hot-selling products in Japan. According to it, the most successful service was Hokuriku Shinkansen. Here is the ranking of 2015 successful products (service) in Japan. All images are linked to Amazon…

A market research company Oricon published the top 10 ranking of best selling manga in 2015 (data from 2014 Nov. 17 to 2015 Nov. 22). According to it, ONE PIECE keeps the 1st place. Rank Title Title 2015 Sales (copies) Author Publisher 201…

An amine fan site Anikore reports some anime rankings. I would like to introduce its bookmarks' ranking. Anikore sorted TV anime shows by the number of visitors' bookmarks. The No. 1 TV anime of 2015 winter season (2015 Jan- Mar) was 冴え…

A magazine Nikkei Trendy reported 2014 hot-selling products in Japan. According to it, the most successful product was Frozen (film). Here is the ranking of 2014 successful products in Japan. All images are linked to Amazon. No. 10 Abeno H…

An anime site Anikore publishes several anime rankings. I would like to introduce its 2014 Autumn/Fall TV anime ranking by the number of reader's bookmarks. If a TV anime got many reader's bookmarks, its rank got higher. All images are lin…

The following list shows the best selling manga which series started in 2014. Actually some of them had already published as magazine articles in 2013, but their vol.1 books were published in 2014. A publications distributor Nippan release…

The following shows the list of Christmas gifts which Japanese kids want to get. An amusement park Kidzania asked their customers what gift they want for Christmas, and published the result.The most popular gift is Yo-Kai Watch game soft, …

A market research company Oricon published the top 30 ranking of best selling manga titles in 2014 (data from 2013 Nov. 18 to 2014 Nov. 16). According to it, top 2 (ONE PIECE and Attack on Titan) are same as those of the 2013 ranking. Haik…

Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd. and Yahoo Japan conducted a popularity vote of "Kaiju in Ultraman TV series" last year through the Internet. The following is the result of the vote. I cannot paste photos of Kaiju. Instead of them, please s…

Here is the list of top selling manga in Japan in 2013. Big two "ONE PIECE and Attack of Titan" dominate the market. 2014 version is here (Top 30 Best Selling Manga in Japan 2014). Title Title Sales (copies) Author Publisher ONE PIECE ONE …

A fan site of Tokyo Disneyland "Tokyo Disneyland Konzatsu Yoso" conducted a survey "What attraction in Tokyo Disneyland do you like?". The site released the result. According to it, the most popular attraction is Monsters, Inc. Ride & Go S…

The following shows the best selling music singles (record/CD) in Japan (as of 2013). Masato Shimon, singer of No.1 hit "Oyoge! Taiyaku-kun" had not made a royalty contract with the record company when he recorded the song. Because he did …