You might think the job of high school textbook editor might just be one of the most mind-numbingly mundane around, but it turns out such a career can be risky business indeed. There’s constant updating required, plus you have to keep a keen eye out for the occasional bonkers writer that might try to slip in some historical revisionism now and again, plus test questions and whatnot need to be challenging without being overwhelming, etc.

And now, it looks like you can add “making sure no one secretly slipped an image of a Japanese porn star into the review questions section” to the list of high-stakes tasks facing the humble textbook editor.

According to Xinhuaxia News, a high school in Java, Indonesia, recently found itself inundated with angry complaints from parents claiming that the school’s English textbook of choice contained a photograph of Japanese porn actress Maria Ozawa, and that some of the more enterprising kids enrolled had, apparently, inadvertently stumbled upon some unsavory material after researching the actress’s name on the Internet.

It’s not clear from the only photo of the offending page available (above) whether Ozawa’s name is mentioned specifically in the textbook, but with Ozawa being one of the more well-known pornographic actresses in Indonesia, and having also appeared in Indonesian mainstream cinema, it’s possible that some kids (and, let’s face it, probably a lot of their dads) simply recognized the actress’s likeness right away.

Indonesian education authorities are reportedly investigating how the photo ended up in an officially endorsed textbook in the first place. Meanwhile, the school has apparently collected the textbooks and will be using a different one going forward – hopefully one that has been thoroughly vetted for porn star cameos.

Source: Xinhuaxia News

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