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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:01 am

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TV coverage of stir over Iwate’s ‘nude’ festival worth 5 billion yen

TV coverage given to a previously little-known festival in Iwate Prefecture — because of uproar over a poster deemed sexually harassing - was worth as much as 5 billion yen, according to a broadcast research company.

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