STOP THE PRESSES! BOOBIES ON NHK COUNTDOWN SPECIAL!!!

There’s even a message on NHK’s site now…

ＤＪ　ＯＺＭＡのバックダンサーが裸と見間違いかねないボディスーツを 着用して出演した件について、ＮＨＫではこのような姿になるということは 放送まで知りませんでした。 衣装の最終チェックであるリハーサルでは放送のような衣装ではありませんでした。 今回の紅白のテーマにふさわしくないパフォーマンスだったと考えます。
視聴者の皆さまに不快な思いをおかけして誠に申し訳ないと考えております。

Ha, finally it pays to be a boring old git staying in front of the telly on New Year’s Eve!

I wonder if we’ll see more gaijins willing to pay the license fee now?

body suits my fuckin ASS. if those weren’t titties, then i’m going to stop looking at pr0n

Yup, Ken’s right… I guess that means no more pr0n for you, because those were body suits

It seems noahT needs to find a different hobby, which shouldn’t be too severe if it was japanese pr0n he watched.

Your video is linked on the Drudge Report.

Why was there so much English in a Japanese new years show? I understand that some words “migrate” from culture to culture, but the number seemed rather high.

so is a realistic painting or drawing or other form of depiction of nudity ok to show to kids? it is obscenity, plain and simple. doesn’t matter if it *isn’t real* — if it is made to depict such things realistically, it is obscene.

Not too surprising but KIKU in Honolulu completely clipped out DJ OZMA’s performance.

As for whether or not NHK knew this was going to happen, according to one of the numerous articles which appeared on Yahoo Japan New Years morning, NHK said they didn’t know about the body suit stunt since in the final dress rehearsal a few hours before the televised performance, the dancers appeared in bikini outfits (and so the producers thought that was how the performance would go off). Knowing how NHK prefers to err on the side of conservatism on programs like Kouhaku, this explanation doesn’t sound too far fetched. Of course, they probably should have known to expect something when they invited him.

OZMA more than likely pulled a fast one and the realistic body suits ended up catching many off guard since from afar (at NHK Hall) and on standard def TV, it would have been easy to mistake it as real (on the high def still captures I saw, it was easy to tell they were body suits). So I guess Yukie Nakama’s surprised reaction was authentic since it probably looked real from where she was standing. I bet the old folks in the hall had some priceless looks on their face.

The most hilarious thing about this is where nudity is expected in Japan (like on some tv shows, in some daily magazines and manga, public sento’s, onsen, etc), most nihonjin wouldn’t care but since this was Kouhaku on NHK, the nudity even if fake was just unacceptable resulting in a greater knee jerk reaction by some viewers.

NHK’s conservatism doesn’t always mean they shy away from real nudity either as they’ve had documentaries and other programs which included some. There was a documentary about an artist and it had a mother and her daughter both totally naked who were painted and wrapped in paper to create the artwork the artist wanted, another with the usual onsen visits with plenty of naked men walking around oblivious to the camera crew. I also remember one of the “educational” drama’s NHK aired last summer about one young school boy’s insecurity with his penis size and how the show had so many implied references including one scene where a small group of boys are standing in a circle comparing and another scene after swimming class where he is day dreaming it grew large so he proudly stood on a desk and dropped his shorts (including a brief shot of part of his bare ass) so a few of his classmates (which included one shirtless girl) could take a gander at it. So it is not like Japanese are prudes when it comes to this stuff but when it happens (even if it turns out to be fake) where it isn’t supposed to like Kouhaku, all hell breaks loose. Too funny (but this kind of dichotomy is what makes Japan daily life enjoyable at times).

I thought it was funny… NHK was the wrong choice of broadcasters to do it on, but it was pretty funny.

Lmao who ever said they are wearing body suits needs to get out of the house. Go to a stripclub and get a few lap dances then you will know what real titties are.

Great show I wish there was anything on worth watching last night. 500 channels and nothing on.

Keep up the good work

No amount of Japanese small boobs could make up for sitting through this bad song.

So sad they had to butcher DJ Doc’s “Run to You.” I so prefer the original to this re-hashed unoriginal inspiration. The whole performance should get a boobie prize with the words tacky print in bold.

This song is just horrible, the dancing is moronic, the guy flying overhead makes no sense, and what the hell is going on with the dancers dropping their bikini bottoms to show their “package”? This is a psychological nightmare. And the bodysuits that may have been worn do what, exactly?

They are indeed bodysuits. I couldn’t figure out why the DJ Ozma video was bumping the Saddam Hussein execution off the front page of YouTube, particularly as it was such an awful song. I clicked off long before the boobies made their appearance.

@ ed: why are naked human bodies, real or depicted, obscene?

your comment, like so many other prudish comments in this forum, baffle me.

i can appreciate a need to censor vulgar nudity and explicit sexuality, but this video was hardly either of those. it was simply a happy, crappy japanese dance video with an artful emphasis of the naked body.