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 ...

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 ...

According to JR’s blog post, laws against tattoos were enforced in 1936 after the war between Japan and China broke out, banning tattoos entirely. “The Japanese government thought people with ...

Japan's Bunshin Tattoo Museum in Yokohama is dedicated to the work of Yoshihito Nakano, who is better known in the body art world as Horiyoshi III, a master of traditional Japanese tattooing. The ...