TOKYO: A Japanese artist charged with obscenity for distributing a design for a kayak shaped like her vagina scoffed at a demand by prosecutors to punish her with a US$6,600 (RM27,500) fine and vowed to appeal if found guilty.
Megumi Igarashi’s case has drawn widespread attention and sparked accusations of heavy-handed censorship in a country known for its multi-billion-dollar pornography industry but where actual depictions of genitalia are banned.
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