Sport Athletes. Who do Japanese like?

Ichiro

The Sasakawa Sports Foundation revealed the result of survey about "favorite sport athlete" targeted Japanese over 20 years old.
1,527 out of 2,000 respondents chose only one favorite athlete of them.

1: Ichiro (baseball)
2: Mao Asada (figure skate)
3: Ryo Ishikawa (golf)


イチローが１番人気＝スポーツ世論調査　―時事ドットコム
http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=spo_30&k=2012092801012

What kind of sports do Japanese children like?

Typical court of dodge ball

Bandai asked parents who have a child between 3 to 12 years old about favorite sports of their children.
According to the parents 34.3 percents of children like football, influenced by recent success of Japanese women's football team on the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 and London Olympic Games.

What is your favorite sport?

Boys and Girls
1: Football
2: Swimming
3: Baseball
4: Gymnastics
5: Dodgeball

Boys
1: Football
2: Baseball
3: Swimming

Girls
1: Swimming
2: Football
3: Rope skipping


3-12歳の好きなスポーツは?　オリンピックが後押しか…バンダイ　―リセマム
http://resemom.jp/article/2012/09/13/9826.html

Mcdonald's Japan Hamburger General Election

McDonald's Japan revealed the result of "Hamburger General Election", collected 207,948 votes online from mobile phones between September 11th and 16th.

1 : Chicken Tatsuta
(Japanese Style Fried Chicken Sandwich)

2 : BIG Mac

3 : Teriyaki Mac Burger
(Burger with Teriyaki Sauce)

4 : Tsukimi Burger
(Fried Egg Burger)

5 : GraKoro
(Gratin Croquette Burger)

6 : Teritama
(Egg Burger with Teriyaki Sauce)

7 : Double Cheese Burger

8 :Shrimp Filet-O
(Fried Shrimp Cake Burger)

9 : Filet-O-Fish

10: Juicy Chicken Filet-O
(Chicken Filet Sandwich)


-FACTS-
Regular Sandwich Menu at McDonald's Japan
http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/regular/index.html


マックがハンバーガー総選挙、“好きなバーガー”の人気No.1は？　―Narinari.com
http://www.narinari.com/Nd/20120919013.html

Population of people over 65 reached 30M

The day before Respect for the Aged Day(September 17th) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications revealed that the Japanese population of people over 65 years old has become the record high of 30.74 million, increased by 1.02 million from last year.
On the other hand, population of the people aged between 0 to 64 decreased by 1.28 million from last year. The ratio of old people above 65 in the total Japanese population(127.53 million) also reached the record high of 24.1 percents, increased by 0.8 points from last year.
Among the people over 65, there are 13.15 males and 17.59 females. Population of people over 75 was 15.17 million and over 85 was 4.30 million.
Among the people over 65, 16.4 percents are living alone.


65歳以上の高齢者、3000万人超す　「団塊」到達で　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFS16001_W2A910C1000000/?dg=1

Tohoku Earthquake, 2,814 people are still missing

Bodies were temporary buried in the ground kept waiting to be cremated.

National Police Agency stated the number of people died of the Great East Japan Earthquake is 15,870, and 2,814 are still missing at the point of September 12th 2012.


震災死者１万５８７０人、不明２８１４人　１２日現在　―朝日新聞デジタル
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0912/TKY201209120483.html