Right-Wing Candidate’s Nude Campaign Poster Skirts Law
The Japanese candidate’s nude photo is totally legal.
In contrast with the ubiquitous portrait shots preferred by most candidates, the campaign poster for Teruki Goto, an independent running for the Chiyoda Ward Assembly in Tokyo, went viral after it showed him posing nude against a Rising Sun flag motif while raising a katana over the Imperial Seal, his genitals covered by his name.
According to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, the use of nudity is not banned because there are no restrictions on poster design in the Public Offices Election Law. All posters are legal as long they bear the name of the candidate and are posted on the designated boards.
The election law bans campaigning for commercial interests and regulates both the size and number of posters allowed per candidate, but that’s it, a ministry official explained.
“Campaign posters are aimed at introducing candidates and their activities. (The content is) not regulated by law,” the official said, explaining the ministry has no authority to evaluate content.
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8 responses to Right-Wing Candidate’s Nude Campaign Poster Skirts Law
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arc99 April 26th, 2015 at 11:18
Does not surprise me at all. Nudity is commonplace on Japanese broadcast television.
We Americans love to boast about our first amendment, but when it comes to the human body, western Europe and Japan both could teach us a thing or two about what freedom of speech means.
They also all have mandatory, universal health insurance. Israel does too. But not us.
Next time I come across someone talking about America “leading from behind”, I will be sure to point these things out to clarify how we do lag behind the rest of the western world.
Larry Schmitt April 26th, 2015 at 11:54
Remember the “wardrobe malfunction?” That could not have happened in any other country, that people were obsessed about the display of a nipple for a fraction of a second, and even a government agency fined the network. That anyone was outraged over the “immorality” of that is laughable.
arc99 April 26th, 2015 at 12:24
Precisely. America loses its sh*t over a 1-second glimpse of something that is the very first thing most of us see when we enter this world.
granpa.usthai April 26th, 2015 at 15:07
as one troll would say:
PREPOSTEROUS!
and even while some among them were being ill treated by corrupt state Industrial Commissions.
FatRat April 26th, 2015 at 13:05
Looks like Victorian Pornography to me. lol
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/279/1/8/victorian_pornography_by_renca_w-d4c20x6.jpg
Hirightnow April 26th, 2015 at 13:11
Shamelessness!
bpollen April 26th, 2015 at 22:02
Where can I get a Victorian Pornograph? Are accessories required?
granpa.usthai April 26th, 2015 at 15:04
finally!
someone who has hearken to a voice crying out in the wilderness of deliciously wicked sin and degradation!
no worries for he who will not wear MIXED FIBERS merely to appease non believers.
you have NO FAULTS on you, rejoice and be exceedingly happy.
for like unto ALL MEN, you came into this life BUTT NAKED and it really won’t make a damn if you leave this life BUTT NAKED, as we shall all stand before HIM, both small and great (lucky bastards!) BUTT NAKED!