Japan.Internet.com and goo research just published results from their latest studies about ‘PC internet usage at home’. Concerning these results 98.3% of Japanese have a fixed internet connection at home and over 70% use internet at home more than 1h every day. When it comes to holidays or days off astonishing 22% of Japanese become hardcore internet users with a usage of more than 6h per day. About 25% of these hardcore users surf the web even more than 12h per day off. Compared to the last survey end of 2008 the heavy users ratio increase by more than 1%. Did the internet turn into an alternative to going out and meeting people on holidays in times of recession?