Tokyo's subway authority will allow a station advertisement featuring a nude and pregnant Britney Spears starting Monday, officials said, dropping an earlier plan to censor the photo.

HB Japan, Inc., publisher of the Japanese edition of Harper's Bazaar, plans to rent ad space at Omotesando Station in Minato Ward this week to promote its October issue with Spears posing naked on the cover.

The ad, in which Spears bares her belly but covers her breasts with her hands, is the same one used in the August issue of the American edition that hit U.S. newsstands last month.