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Naked Britney Allowed to Stimulate Japan
Britney Spears has been deemed safe for the Japanese public.
Tokyo subway officials have backed off from banning the publishers of Harper's Bazaar from displaying ads featuring a nude and pregnant Spears, just a day after claiming the posters were "too stimulating" for young passengers, according to the Associated Press.
The posters promote a photo spread of Spears in the October issue of the Japanese magazine, the same set that appeared in the U.S. version's August issue.
The photo picked to grace the ads, and the one that first drew the censure of subway officials, is the cover shot, which features the with-child pop star posing au naturel, albeit with crossed arms and legs to prevent any X-rated exposure of the "In the Zone" singer.
Tokyo Metro Company's obscenity-screening team--and yes, such a thing actually exists--first objected to the supposedly prurient pic last month. They eventually struck a deal allowing the magazine publisher to post the ads, but only after blacking out Spears from the waist down.
The blackened portion of the poster was to include a statement explaining the censorship, either reading, "We apologize for hiding part of a beautiful image of a mother-to-be," or "In this place we are not allowed to exercise the same level of freedom of expression as the original Harper's Bazaar."
Tokyo Metro Co.'s objections stemmed not from the sight of the pregnant pop star but from government censors' long ban on nudity from ads appearing in subway cars and stations, due to the high percentage of young travelers. Metro officials stuck to the rules in the case of Spears, despite the Japanese magazine's editor claiming it was "ridiculous" to argue that Mrs. Federline was simply "too stimulating" for riders.
Apparently, they've come around.
"Our earlier request to cover the waist down was because of nudity, not because we had anything against pregnant women," Metro spokesman Tatsuya Edakubo told the AP.
According to Edakubo, the officials ultimately made an exception to their rule after reaching an understanding with the magazine's publishers that the shoot's intention was to portray a happy, expectant mother and not simply to print salacious photos.
Not that the photos were all that salacious to begin with.
While Spears posed in various stages of undress for the shoot, she refrained from flat-out flashing or showing any portion of skin that may qualify as scandalous.
"I'm glad the subway officials understood the meaning of the photo," Kayoko Higashino, the deputy chief editor of the overseas edition, told the AP.
As it is, Tokyo's trendy Omotesando station will display nearly 50 posters promoting Harper's Bazaar, just five of which feature the visage, and assorted body parts, of Spears.
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