TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seiko Holdings Corporation (TOKYO: 8050) released an annual Seiko Time White Paper in celebration of Time Day, a Japanese national day. The white paper, which has been published since 2017, is based on surveys that explore how people perceive and experience time.

As Seiko approaches its 140th anniversary this year, the Company has conducted an awareness survey aimed at consumers in the U.S., China, and Japan to delve more deeply into how we value time today.

A full year has already passed since the Covid-19 pandemic became a global crisis. As the ways in which people spend their time have become more diverse due to significant changes to their personal and professional environments, many people have taken this as an opportunity to rethink how they use and assign value to their time. This report compares perceptions of time in the U.S., China, and Japan and investigates the differences among these countries.

Key Points

Respondents in the U.S. now perceive time as passing extremely fast, at roughly 3.4 times the speed of previous years, compared to 2.03 times in Japan and 1.68 times in China

U.S. respondents ranked “hobbies/leisure time” as the time they value most, while “sleep/rest” was No. 1 for those in Japan, and “working, doing housework, or studying” was top for those in China

In a self-assessment of how well people use their time, respondents in China ranked first with 78.4 points, the U.S. was second with 64.5 points, and Japan third with 58.5 points.

For more details, please visit: https://www.seiko.co.jp/en/timewhitepaper/2021/

＊　Percentages are rounded to one decimal place and thus may not necessarily equal exactly 100%. Monetary values are rounded to whole numbers.

Contacts

Corporate Branding Department
Seiko Holdings Corporation
prdept@seiko.co.jp