A cropped version of the controversial image Police in Tokyo are interviewing a magazine publisher over a photograph showing a young female pop star in an 'inappropriate pose' with a boy. The photograph, showing AKB48 singer Tomomi Kasai, 21, naked with a blond child cupping her breasts from behind, was to be published in Shukan Young Magazine. Publisher Kodansha was planning to run the photograph, which came from a forthcoming book of photographs of the singer, in its weekly manga (or comic-style) magazine earlier this month. But that edition didn't make it to the newsstands, and detectives were called in after concerns were raised that the picture might infringe even Japan's notoriously lax child pornography laws.
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Manga (or comic-style) Shukan Young magazine scrapped photo of singer
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Kasai, 21, has been in hugely popular girl band AKB48 since 2006
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Tokyo detectives interview publisher Kodansha over child porn concerns
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