The hideous surgical procedures which pass as tattoo removal in Japan have once again been the subject of a grotesque expose, with a TV show helpfully detailing the practice in the hopes of terrifying anyone who might be thinking of getting inked out of their madness.
The programme follows a clinic providing tattoo removal services to those who get sick of being subjected to the kind of tattoo-related discrimination the Japanese are so fond of, employing such advanced tattoo removal techniques as slicing off the tattooed skin and stitching up the gash – at a cost of as much as $15,000 for modestly sized tattoos, a sum which is of course not covered by any health insurance:
This is of course not the first time such grisly procedures have been shown off on TV – although whether such propaganda is helping discourage the practice from taking root in non-yakuza is not clear.
Tattoo removal in the rest of the world now normally consists of a course of laser removal treatments, typically leaving no scarring and requiring no surgery or skin slicing, leading to some doubts as to the nature of the treatment provided in Japan’s clinics:
I think this is made so people don’t make tattoos in first place.
If they showed how easy laser removal is.
Young people would be like : “If i can easily remove it , i can make one when I still study.”
What’s horrible is seeing this old type of method used to remove tattoos. Why aren’t they getting laser surgery?
OH YEAH like the Cute Blue Butterfly isn’t cute and playful at all…
…and that she’d rather have a scarred Crooked Sutured stiched up arm instead !
Many of those girls and their tattoos were cute! Hell, if Japan doesn’t want them because the tattoo makes them look like Yakuza or some other stupid reason, I’ll take’em home!
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