Are the rumours about Japanese girls schools true?
I am occasionally accused (quite rightly!) of spicing up story titles, but today this survey from goo Ranking needs no extra help from me, when they asked what rumours about Japanese girls schools are they curious to find out if they are true or not.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I wonder given the subject matter that only the males were asked the question? Then again, women who haven’t been to a private school may be curious too to know the answer.
Research results
Q: What rumours about Japanese girls’ schools are you curious to find out if they are true or not?
Rank Score 1 There’s constant factional rivalry between different groups 100 2 Attractive girls get love letters, etc 89.3 3 A lot of them fall in love with young male teachers 87.2 4 They flap their skirts when hot in class 80.1 5 They hang around the school gates waiting to be chatted up 64.3 6= When school finishes there’s a gaggle of boys waiting to meet them 62.2 6= Everyone has at least one brand item 62.2 8 They have dating parties from middle school onwards 58.2 9 They greet each other with “gokigenyou“ 56.1 10 Lots of girls have no male friends 52.6 11 School sets the rules on the length of skirts 50.5 12 At school festivals it’s mostly boys who attend 48.5 13 Too many boys have come to school festivals, so they have charged for tickets 48.5 14 They can’t go to toilet alone 45.9 15 No-one wears makeup in the morning 42.9 16 Because real boys are scary, a lot of them are Takarazuka fans 38.8 17 They only ever use “san” when referring to boys 38.3 18 There’s schools not officially recorded as girls schools, but they are effectively so 35.2 19 Using sweet words to praise each other is the norm 30.6 20 They get on like sisters with female teachers 27.6
