Comments on: Japan Google Popular Searches

By: ParAbnormal

ParAbnormal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:47:57 +0000

I totally LOLed at seeing ‘Wife of bath’ in those lists XD I once had to write a paper on her and it was not the most pleasant experience!

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:23:35 +0000

Some of the game shows in Japan are wacky enough without wife swapping as well. From the search results, sounds more like “husband swatting” might be in

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:22:43 +0000

very true

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:53:37 +0000

LOL. way too much info

By: katiemuffett

katiemuffett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:55:46 +0000

Cheers! I do sometimes find the most disturbing insights into other people’s minds on Google search – one beginning with “how long after…” at one point came up with “…taking cocaine will it be out of my system”. Uhhhh, I only wanted to know how long I had to wait between doses of Night Nurse cold medicine.

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:05 +0000

Thanks for that info. I have just updated the post and included your piece in it.

By: katiemuffett

katiemuffett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:32 +0000

Ouch, not a lot of communication going on in Japanese couples. Those kinds of problems are why you have a partner: they’re there to work these things out with you. Maybe some Japanese psychologist will see this post and make a killing at marriage counselling?

The UK is very typically odd and joke-related in these searches. “husband/wife jokes”…”husband obedience trials”…”wife beater”…and the worryingly WTF “wifesnap”

http://katiesjapanfiles.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/googlesearches.png (sorry for the crappy pasting, this Mac only has Gimp)

By: whipcracker

whipcracker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:14 +0000

RT @Shibuya246: Japan Google Popular Searches, Japan Living | Shibuya246 http://bt.io/AHXb
After seeing the show wife swap many times over here, i would not want any part of it. Some of the shows go to the extreme. And you wonder if these types of people exist? It might catch on in Japan, who knows of all the wacky types of programming there. It could be turned into more of a game show, rather than cheap reality that’s it made to be here.
Quite a comparison between the countries.

By: Neksus

Neksus — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:45:23 +0000

Wife swap… gross

Times aren’t funny in Europe, Japan hasn’t been exempted.

By: sorvani

sorvani — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:33:14 +0000

oh, I had read about this yesterday because Mari had posted it on her blog Watashi to Tokyo (smt.blogs.com). Looks like she linked it from a livedoor blog.

interesting to compare the US results though.

By: sorvani

sorvani — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:29:54 +0000

Well wife swap is the name of a tv show here, so that will skew the ratings as people search for that.

It went up a lot after the “baloon boy” hoax because those parents had been on that TV show.