57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
~Sedai wo Koeru Uta ga Aru~", literally meaning "Love and Family: Songs that Last for Generations".
November 29: List of singers and groups announced, as well as the remainder of the program's team hosts and mediators.
Audience participants at NHK Hall were restricted to those whose subscription fees with Hōsō Hō (Japan's Broadcasting Act) were in good standing.
Each judge places his/her ball secretly into either the white or red bucket, indicating the team they prefer, and without anyone else seeing.
A third woman follows the buckets while holding a basket containing six additional balls - representing the remaining points to be earned.
The table below documents the voting and points distribution: Days prior to the 57th event, DJ Ozma told the media his performance on Kōhaku would be something special.
In the NHK bulletin, Tamio explained that the women were actually wearing flesh-colored bodysuits with drawn-on breasts, and assured the audience that no nudity occurred.
Further inspection via recordings show flaws in the bodysuits, such as wrinkling of the skin and the breasts on all the women looking identical.
Despite the stunt being completely fake, viewers considered the performance to be distasteful and inappropriate for children.
Contrary to NHK's explanation, sports newspapers reported on December 30 - one day before the event - to expect the performance to be done in a bodysuit.
On tape-delayed broadcasts via NHK World Premium, the video portion of DJ Ozma's performance was replaced with coastal scenery.
On United States-based TV stations, the entire performance of DJ Ozma was completely removed.
This caused Internet savvy users scurrying to on-line video sites such as YouTube to view the censored segment.
