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Supreme Court rules photo collection showing nude men not obscene
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a collection of pictures by the late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe showing male nudes could not be called an indecent publication, scrapping an earlier import ban on the collection by Japanese customs.
[KYODO]
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