When Japanese feel they?re back home from overseas

By Ken Y-N ( August 22, 2011 at 00:09) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Continuing the foreign holiday theme, this time goo Ranking looked at when Japanese feel they are back home after overseas travel. The actual title contains one of these Japanese words that I always find difficult to translate; it?s the feeling of being able to relax after something stressful or challenging, the sigh after the first mouthful of cold beer that lets out all the stress of a hard day?s work, for instance. If any of my readers wish to chip in with a good translation for ?????, please comment!

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of June 2011 1,148 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 12.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.0% in their thirties, 25.4% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 7.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

My feeling of being back home is going to Starbucks in Kansai Airport arrivals lounge; it?s a combination of trying to make myself understood in Japanese through a faceful of stubble and hangover-enhanced jetlag, the staff trying their hardest with English, and when it comes to pay, my triumphant I?m-not-just-another-bloody-tourist moment as I wave my Kabibara-san-encased electronic cash and declare ?PiTaPa onegaishimasu!?

Ranking result

Q: When do you feel you?re back home after being overseas? (Sample size=1,148)

Rank	?	Score
1	When I eat Japanese food	100
2	When I get into the bath	79.3
3	When I lie down in my own bed	78.4
4	When the plane touches down in Japan	74.6
5	When I see my family?s faces	71.0
6	When I make myself understood in Japanese	69.7
7	When I watch my favourite Japanese television program	47.9
8	When I pass through the Japanese immigation gate	42.9
9	When the toilet I enter is clean	37.3
10	When I see Japanese advertising signage	36.0
11	When I meet my friends, girlfriend, boyfriend again	30.1
12	When I get three bars on my mobile phone	29.7
13	When I pick up my luggage at the airport	26.1
14	When I hear the sounds of seatbelts being undone	15.1
15	When I get into a taxi to ride home	9.7
16	When the trains run on time	8.8
17	When I can drink green tea out of a plastic bottle	7.9
18	When my pet comes to greet me	7.4
19	When the toilet seat is warm	7.0

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