Kurikinton.. I lived in Japan for two years. I always thought it was odd that the government allowed pictures of naked children to be published in nudist magazizes so long as they didn't show pubic hair. I also used to wonder who had the job of marking out the pubic hair on the imported Playboy and Penthouse magazines. :) The only good thing about the law in Japan is that no matter where you go, the policy and the penalties are pretty the same. Even though the standard seems a little outdated for 2002, you never had to worry about community standards being really different from one community to the next. In the US what's OK in San Francisco and NY is likely to be really offensive and against the law in Alabama.