| | ABC News: Tokyo Subway to Display Naked Spears Ad |
 | | HB Japan, which plans to rent ad space at a Tokyo subway station next week to promote its October issue with the cover, was firstly asked by Tokyo's subway authority to modify the photograph during negotiations in July. |
 | | But Tokyo Metro said Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006 it would allow full presentation of the photo as an exception to its obscenity rule, saying it understood the publisher's intention was to portray a happy mother _ not to be sexually explicit. |
 | | But on Thursday, Tokyo Metro said it would allow full presentation of the photo as an exception to its obscenity rule, saying it understood the publisher's intention was to portray a happy mother not to be sexually explicit. |
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