Wii Voting Channel shows Japan is different, none surprised.

The most interesting thing I find about the Everybody Votes Channel on the Nintendo Wii is the worldwide poll. Not least because when the results come in, it gives us a relatively clear picture on how the world is thinking, allowing the organisation of votes by percentage.

These results are the most interesting for me because Japan is almost always at one extreme or the other! For example, when the question "Are you better at using your brain or your brawn" came up, most countries were for brain, but Japan was more than 50% for brawn. Crazy I know, we all thought they were super-smart.

However, the most telling results were those of "Have you visited a foreign country" and similarly a few months later "Do you want to live in a foreign country?" In both cases European countries were fairly high on the list for Yes, but Japan was right down the bottom with most people giving No as their answer.

Could the seeming lack of desire to be internationally aware from Japanese Wii owners show that Japan is indeed the most isolated of modern countries? (Modern countries being defined as those who have a substantial Wii install base, and are participating in the voting channel).

Maybe not surprising, but still a little saddening.