Are Morning Musume bad for Japan's image?

[*Petit*]

IF anything, I think you might say that the ai-doru idustry as a whole is bad for japan's image. Ayu was never in H!P BUT she did bikini photos when she was baely a teen. And also at the moment only about 50% of H!P is in their early teens, many of them are above 20 and still releasing photo books. In this "departement" of H!P it's very similar to other idol artists on f.e.x pony canyon and GInza. (Aya Ueto being an example)