In Japan, a country that worships smooth, clear skin, tattoos are not well-received on the body. In local gyms, they are even banned. To avoid violating this aesthetic rule, an expat with an inked ...

Japanese traditional tattoo half sleeve piece featuring a dragon by Tyler Ciarlanti — Tyler Ciaralanti, founder of Red ...

Sixer, founder of Golden Child, focuses on a black and gray realism tattoo during a client session. The Golden Child Tattoo ...

Located inside the Platinum Suites building on Thompson Drive, Brainwashed offers something unique: the first Japanese head ...

A motorcycle club founder in Nanaimo wants to show off some of the tattoos underneath her biker gear. Shelby Johnston, one of ...

When she was 12 years old, WNBA star Gabby Williams got her first tattoo. Her older sister Kayla got inked with a Japanese ...

Now, Fulbeck, a distinguished professor of art at UC Santa Barbara, revisits those same participants in “hapa.me – 25 years ...

The Ghost of Yotei developers have emphasized their commitment to portraying feudal Japan in a respectful way, this time ...

Part of that culture stretches back more than 200-years. The original Japanese woodblock prints, that Kitamura uses for many of his tattoos, created by one of Japan's master artists, Utagawa ...

While body art is widely accepted in many countries, tattoos are considered taboo in Japan, especially in public places like bathhouses, gyms and even workplaces. Because of this stigma, tattoo ...

While doing research for a trip to Japan, I learned tattoos were considered taboo. Since my husband and I both have tattoos, I worried it would make navigating some areas difficult. We never had ...