NUDE PHOTOS OF DEAD SINGER SPARK ROW IN JAPAN

A Japanese record company is facing a backlash after announcing it would release a CD by a deceased singer that will include nude photographs of her taken privately.

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The governor of Kumamoto region in southern Japan, where the singer Aki Yashiro was from, slammed the decision as an “unforgiveable” act in a blog post published last week.

The CD is due to be released last Monday by the record company, which has announced that the product will feature two nude photos of Yashiro, who died in 2023 aged 73, as a “bonus feature”

It said the photos were taken by her then-partner when she was in her 20s.