Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) releases the total attendance of baseball games every year. The following table shows the total attendance of NPB games from 1950 to 2013. Figure : Average attendance of a baseball game by year Pacific Le…

Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper reported 2013 memory card market share in Japan. According to it, California-based manufacturer Sandisk had the largest share, followed by Toshiba (Japan), Transcend (Taiwan). 5.4 million cards were sold in …

I bought a lunch box which is sold at the train station. It is called "ekiben". I bought "Shiumai Bento", it means dim sum lunch box. Last year, I bought the same one for 750 yen, but this year it costs 800 yen ($7.55 €5.84). In last April…

Today (2014 Sep 27) Mt. Ontake in Nagano prefecture erupted and 63 hikers died by ashes.The following list shows volcanic disasters in Japan after 1970. Mountain Period Cause Damage Usu 1977-1982 Ash, crustal deformation, mudflow 1978 Oct…

According to Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper, total 743,000 copiers were sold in Japan in 2013. Canon had the largest share (22.2%), but their share decreased by 0.2% from 2012. Meanwhile the second player Ricoh increased their share by 0.…

According to the research by NPD DisplaySearch, 5.46 million flat TVs were sold in Japan in 2013. The sales of 2013 decreased by 14.8% from 2012. It is a tough situation for the TV market. Sharp had the top share (39%). Toshiba was 3rd pla…

According to the survey by a nursery company Takii, the top 10 vegetables which Japanes people like are the following. No. 10 tie Welsh onion 1.8% of people say they like welsh onions (leek, Allium fistulosum). In the following image, stem…

According to Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, 3.04 million Blu-ray Disc recorders were sold in 2013 in Japan. The total shipment in 2013 decreased by 6.9% from 2012. In 2013 the sales of TVs and recorder…

Japan Automobile Importers Association reported the number of registered cars which were imported to Japan from all over the world. According to the data as of 2013 March, the number of Volkswagen was the biggest. Approximately 656 thousan…

Japan Automobile Importers Association released the data of the imported car market share in Japan. According to the report, 278,864 cars were imported to Japan in 2013. Among them, Volkswagen had the highest market share (24.1%). Please s…

My cheap electric fan which I bought three years ago got out of order. It did not recover. So I threw it out as a big trash. We cannot dump a big size trash (over 30cm x 30cm) as a daily garbage. In order to dump a big trash, I have to pay…

Nikkei newspaper estimated the market share of internet service providers in 2013 in Japan as the below. The total number of broadband connection contracts was 81.34 million. The number of contracts increased by 51.8% from 2012. OCN of NTT…

A magazine of TV games, Famitsu researched the market share of TV game softwares in Japan in 2013. According to it, Nintendo, known as Super Mario series had the largest share. Bandai Namco of Pac-Man was the second place. Capcom of Monste…

An agricultural nursery company Takii reported their study of vegetables and home gardens. In the study, Takii asked their customers about favorite vegetables and unfavorite vegetables. According to their study, the most disliked vegetable…

The table below shows congestion rates of trains in Tokyo, in 2013. The numbers were released by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Yamanote line was the most crowded train in Tokyo. Congestion rate (%) definition is:…

Nikkei newspaper estimated the 2013 market share of video cameras in Japan. According to it, the market size of video camera decreased by 16.1% from 2012. The total shipment of video cameras was 1.46 million cameras. Figure: Market share o…

The following shows the 2013 digital camera market share in Japan which was calculated by IDC Japan. The total shipment in 2013 was 7.9 million cameras. Manufacturer Market share (%) Canon 23.9 Nikon 20.7 Sony 17.5 Olympus 11.2 Fujifilm 9.…

My daughter will take a high school entrance examination next February. To prepare for it, I bought a workbook which collects past tests of the entrance examinations. The book is for the entrance examination of Tokyo metropolitan high scho…

Terrorist incident by a left wing group: Arson attack at the office of Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform 2001 Aug 7 A socialist group Kakumeiteki-roudosha-kyokai Kaihoha (革命的労働者協会解放派) set on fire at the office of Japa…

Nikkei newspaper estimated the 2013 market share of cosmetic products in Japan. According to it, all of top 5 manufacturers are domestic companies. There are several reports of the cosmetic products market share on the internet. Those repo…

Recently, many houses or buildings have solar panels on their roof for photovoltaic generation. So, currently the solar cell market is expanding. According to Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association, the total shipment in 2013 was 8.5 millio…

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reports the job opening-to-application ratio every month. The job opening-to-application ratio expresses the relationship between job seekers and employers. The formula is employers/(job seekers). If …

Nielsen reported the market share of video sites in Japan in 2013. According to it, there were total 790 million hours accesses to video sites from home PCs in 2013 in Japan.Youtube had the top share 53.4% in 2013. Japan-based Niconico was…

According to Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper, 246.6 million useres access major eleven portal sites per month in Japan on average. The biggest portal site in 2013 was Yahoo. Its market share was 25.5%. The second site was Google (24.7%). T…

My wife and my daughter bought a hamster potty for 287 yen ($2.74 €2.10) at Daishin. The potty is too small for our golden hamster to use it. I do not know why they bought such a small potty. It is useless. The hamster has never used it. S…

I use an old-type Canon printer to make my new-year's post cards. Its price was less than 10,000 yen ($100). Recent years my printer does not print photos well. It cannot reproduce the original color in the photo. I would like to buy new o…

IDC Japan reported the 2013's market share of server computers in Japan. According to it, both of Fujitsu and NEC got the highest ratio 20.6%. IBM was the third place. In 2012, the top vendor was Fujitsu, followed by IBM, NEC. Last year NE…

I did not imagine that Xbox is horribly unpopular in Japan. Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper reported the market share of home-use game machines in 2013 financial year. According to it, the market share of Microsoft was 0.2%. Nintendo was t…

Japan Clock & Watch Association estimated that total 67.2 million watches were made in Japan in 2013. Most of them (59.8 million) were exported to overseas, only 7.4 million watches were brought into the Japanese market.There are three big…

According to Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper, Seattle-based Starbucks was the largest coffee shop chain in Japan, in 2013 financial year (2013 April to 2014 March). Its market share was 41.3%. The second largest chain was Doutor Coffee (24…