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Internet cafe usage in Japan

If you miss the last train home, a good tip I hear is to spend the night in an internet cafe. To see how popular that and other activities are at these places, MyVoice recently performed a survey on this very topic of internet cafes. Demographics Over the... ...full story at What Japan Thinks

from What Japan Thinks on Tue, Apr 08 2008

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04 Jul 07 visit Internet Cafe インターネットカフェ 99% japanese  »  YouTube videoJapan Vlog talking about my visit to an internet cafe called 'please'. Kinda otaku'poi? 99% Japanese! Sorry! Music is made by my friend, a original electronic remix for "the river flows in you" by Yiruma. 日本でいったインターネットカフ の話。 ちょっとお たくっぽかったかな
09 Sep 07 visit Surviving in Net cafes  »  Japan Times Over 5,000 people in Japan spend their nights at 24-hour Internet cafes every night, according to the first, but certainly not the last, survey on so-called Net cafe refugees by the labor and welfare... Read more . . .
29 Aug 07 visit Interesting article  »  Puerto Ricans 'Net cafe refugee' population put at 5,400Around 5,400 people with no fixed address spend their nights at 24-hour Internet cafes across Japan, of whom 27 percent are in their 20s, the health ministry said Tuesday.In its first survey on so-called Net cafe...
10 Sep 07 visit Sleeping in Internet-cafes  »  Tokyo Yokohama I had thought it was a handful of people who were spending their nights in 24 hour Internet Cafes, because they don't have a home to go to, but was surprised to read that the numbers are in thousands. I never really needed to go to an Internet Cafe...
04 Oct 08 visit Japanese taste  »  What Japan Thinks 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...
19 May 08 visit Under 7% of users have edited Wikipedia, 30% want to  »  What Japan Thinks japan.internet.com recently reported on this survey conducted by goo Research, their seventh regular Wikipedia survey. Note that as with most reports on japan.internet.com they report the highlights, not the full survey. Demographics Between the 28th of...

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