With Mother's Day just around the corner, the research division of company P-NEST surveyed more than a thousand females in junior high and high school about the holiday. The highlight of the survey was the unexpected result of the question, "Which celebrity do you think is the ideal mother?"

The #1 answer was former Morning Musume member Nozomi Tsuji (21), who got married in 2007 and gave birth to a daughter the same year. She received roughly 10% of the votes in the survey, spread almost evenly across the junior high and high school students.

The top five were the same among both groups, but in a slightly different order. The junior high students ranked model Tsubasa Masuwaka (23) at #2, followed by a tie between Miki Maya (45) and Nanako Matsushima (35). Hitomi Kuroki (48) ranked 5th.

On the other hand, high school girls placed Kuroki at #2 and Matsushima at #3. Masuwaka and Maya tied for 4th.