A Japanese nonprofit organization's survey showed 32.8% of young people who are not financially secure are worried about how to get by during the upcoming year-end and New Year's holiday season. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/new-year-youth-poverty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #surveys #newyear #food #poverty #oshogatsu
But honestly, it's the 21st century. If we want the majority of the public to believe that public libraries are still an important institution in the digital age - and they absolutely are - we need library IT that doesn't work like something a time traveller brought back from the late 1990s.
How can we help?
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Code: Got a 'how did we do' boilerplate survey from Hamilton City Libraries. So I reported my failed attempt to suggest a book for their collections.
As usual they used a corporate survey tool. Usually it's ScurvyMonkey but this time it was cemplicity.com. So when they asked for my contact details I wasn't prepared to include them. Even thought I would have been happy for the library to contact me about the issues I reported if they'd used something community-hosted (eg @LimeSurvey).
A record 76% of people in Japan believe it is important to promote relations with South Korea, preliminary results from a survey showed on Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/japan-south-korea-positive-value/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #surveys #southkoreajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #southkorea #us #china
Prices are slated to rise in Japan in December for 217 food and beverage products from 195 major Japanese makers, Teikoku Databank has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/28/economy/food-products-price-rise-december/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #food #japaneseeconomy #snacks #surveys
The profit margin at general hospitals in Japan, excluding psychiatric institutions, stood at minus 7.3% on average in fiscal 2024, a 0.2 percentage point improvement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/japan/general-hospitals-in-red/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hospitals #doctors #wages #mhlw #surveys
Overseas buyers accounted for 3.5% of newly built condos purchased in Tokyo’s 23 wards in the first half of 2025, a sizeable increase from last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/japan/foreign-condo-buyers-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #realestate #mlit #surveys #tokyo #osaka
The five-year survival rate for male and female patients in Japan who were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer between 2012 and 2015 came to 10.7% and 10.2%, respectively. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/science-health/pancreatic-cancer-survival-rate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #cancer #health #surveys
Japanese private think tank Genron NPO has put off the announcement of the results of a Japan-China joint opinion poll, previously set for Monday, officials said, amid a diplomatic spat between the two nations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/japan-china-poll-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #taiwan #sanaetakaichi #surveys
A survey of researchers on Japan's retrial system has found that all 19 respondents support a proposed ban on prosecutors' ability to appeal a court's decision to initiate a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #surveys #justiceministry
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's summit diplomacy with the United States, China and South Korea has won her high marks from respondents of an opinion poll by Jiji Press. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/politics/jiji-poll-takaichi-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #surveys #donaldtrump #xijinping #leejaemyung #ldp #nipponishinnokai
Over 60% of residents near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture do not believe the conditions for restarting the facility have been met, a survey by the prefectural government showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/japan/kashiwazaki-kariwa-restart-negative/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kashiwazakikariwa #niigata #nuclearenergy #surveys
The Justice Ministry is assessing through an expert panel the impact of tougher penalties for the crime of insult three years after their enforcement through a penal code revision. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/crime-legal/japan-crime-of-insult-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #socialmedia #surveys #penalcode
Tokyo has been ranked as the world’s richest city — ahead of New York, London and Los Angeles — thanks to its smooth operations, technology, economic governance and GDP. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/10/economy/tokyo-worlds-richest-city-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #tokyo #surveys #gdp
The cost of sending children to school in Japan is continuing to increase, with the average price of just uniforms for first-year junior high and high school students rising by about ¥10,000 from last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/society/school-expenses-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #education #schools #surveys #savethechildren #poverty
A nickname for ChatGPT, Trump tariffs and words related to the election of Japan’s first female prime minister have been nominated for 2025’s buzzword of the year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/05/japan/society/buzzword-nominees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #media #language #socialmedia #surveys #theosakaexpo #bears #inflation
Prices of 143 products from 195 major food and beverage makers in Japan are set to rise in November, down 58.4% from a year earlier and marking the first decline in 11 months. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/economy/food-price-rise-november/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #food #surveys #wages #snacks
NHK and newspapers are considered the most trustworthy news sources, according to the Japan Press Research Institute. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/japan/online-news-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #newspapers #media #surveys #television #nhk
A record number of workers applied for mental health-related compensation in fiscal 2024, according to health ministry data released Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/japan/society/karoshi-white-paper/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #mhlw #overwork #surveys #jobs #karoshi #mentalhealth
The number of suicides among students in elementary to high school hit a record in 2024, with the figure for those in their 20s also remaining high, underscoring the need to beef up care, health ministry data showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/japan/society/students-suicide-record-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #suicide #students #children #mhlw #mentalhealth #surveys
Total costs to raise a child in Japan rise when they start junior high school or high school, a study by the National Center for Child Health and Development found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/japan/society/child-rearing-costs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #children #inflation #surveys #education
