Piercing unpopular in Japan

Research Panel recently did a Day Research quick survey on piercings; 147,357 people responded to the question.

14.7% said they had one (there was no investigation into what part of the body, but the answer includes conventional ear lobe piercing), 9.7% used to have one, 8.9% didn’t have one but were interested in getting one, and 66.7% had no interest at all.

By way of comparison, according to this data, 14% of Americans and 10% of British people have piercing in places other than their earlobes, but their figures on 83% of Americans having piercings and 72% of them being women would mean that at least 60% of Americans are female, which obviously indicates an error somewhere!