Norms surrounding tattoos in Japan are slowly but steadily changing, especially among the younger generation. I spoke to Japanese people who had gotten tattoos. Here’s what I heard → Japan has ...

Japan's tattoo artists have existed in a legal gray area since 2001, when the country's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare decreed that any action that involves putting "pigment on a needle ...

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 ...

But not everyone who gets a tattoo with Japanese characters can say “sayonara” or even knows what it means. “Most of the general public thinks you can translate Japanese with a corresponding ...

Tattoo is not taboo,” insist two hair dye company employees, and they’ve developed the product to prove it—vanishing tattoos ...

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.

NAHA, Japan — Hana Morita was scrolling through Pinterest when she came across hajichi, a minimalistic tattoo worn by Okinawan women on their fingers and hands. Once common on the subtropical ...

San Jose tattoo artist turns his Japanese culture into pieces of art 03:57. A photo exhibit featuring traditional Japanese tattoo art, called "American Irezumi" is coming to San Francisco's Main ...