
Anime fans have been marvelling at the dedication of a Hong Kong based fan of Love Live!, whose full back tattoo of Nozomi, inked in commemoration of her birthday, has made a truly lasting impression – even “30% complete” and uncoloured.
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An onsen which denied a 60-year-old Maori woman entry on account of its no-tattoo policy finds herself the latest victim of Japan’s uncompromising attitude to ink, but as ever rigid application of the rules for no clear reason seems to enjoy substantial support.
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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.
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The latest development in Osaka’s efforts to hound tattooed deviants from public service have resulted in a lawsuit alleging the purge violates the Japanese constitution.
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Amidst Japan’s ever ongoing campaign to hound tattooed deviants from public places, Saitama may now lead the pack – the prefecture has been excluding record numbers of people with tattoos from public pools, boasting that one pool managed a record-setting “180 in a day.”
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Lupin fans have been shocked at the sordid details of Fujiko’s past unveiled in the 9th outing of the series, whilst everyone else has been left pondering how the second-most service laden series of the season ended up being Lupin…
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Osaka’s mayor has once again been criticising the moral depravity of tattoos, this time warning Lady Gaga that she can forget about working as one of his binmen.
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Continuing his crusade against the evils of tattoos, Osaka mayor Tooru Hashimoto has vowed to “thoroughly deal with” 200 tattooed city employees.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Mar 7, 2012 20:05 JST
- Tags: Gravure, Image Gallery, Kimono, Kobe, Oppai, Prostitution, Tattoos, Yakuza

The discovery of the ravishingly tattooed “Nanami” working at a Kobe soapland and thankfully being rather free with her saucy and highly artistic sample pictures has been attracting a significant amount of attention online.
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So adorable is little Azunyan that one of her admirers seems to have taken things to the ultimate extreme and actually had her tattooed onto his flank, keeping her forever as close to his heart as reasonably possible.
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The mayor of Osaka has once again been voicing his disgust at the fact that the city has employed people with tattoos, and has demanded the creation of a special taskforce to root them out and sack them.
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The mayor of Osaka has ordered a ban on tattoos amongst city employees, with any found to have them to be either fired or forced to remove them, after the outrageous discovery that a public employee had a tattoo and that the city was not even able to sack him for it.
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