
One Nana Mizuki fan has apparently gone so far as to get a (rather good) tattoo of her on his arm – to go with his Nanoha and Fate tattoos, of course.
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A 24-year-old housewife’s desire to remove an ill-advised shoulder tattoo of her cat has resulted in a shockingly grotesque scene – so much so that many were left wondering just what the doctors were thinking.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 1, 2011 02:33 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Kobe’s efforts to make its beaches more family friendly by banning people with tattoos from being on them appears to have backfired spectacularly – far from increasing visitor numbers with a flood of reassured families as was planned, young people have all but disappeared from the beach and visitor numbers are at their lowest ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 24, 2011 15:54 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Recent efforts to ban anyone with a tattoo from visiting public beaches have seen criticism that the policy is violating the human rights of people whose only crime is against fashion.
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A devotee of To Love-Ru has been showing off a newly inked To Love-Ru Darkness tattoo of none other than Yami.
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An otaku devotee of Fate Testarossa shares the year-long journey he took in pursuit of having her likeness carved indelibly onto the entirety of his back.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Jul 12, 2010 20:18 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Internet, One Piece, Police, Seiyuu, Shinjuku, Tattoos

A seiyuu from blockbuster anime One Piece has been arrested on charges of distributing obscene material after police took offence to pictures of the seiyuu’s nether regions posted to the seiyuu’s blog in order to highlight an interesting tattoo.
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One otaku’s love for mahou shoujo seems to resulted in some rather unconventional body art.
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What Chinese gangsters lack in style they apparently make up for in money and armament…
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Japanese researchers striving to rid the nation’s trains of the menacing gropers who supposedly infest them have developed a novel countermeasure: a sticker victims can use to stamp the hands of chikan with a red “X,” allowing them to be readily found in a crowd.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Sep 30, 2009 10:07 JST
- Tags: Events, Exhibitionism, Fine Art, Mizugi, Oppai, Oshiri, Tattoos, UK

This appealing young lady, identified only as Rie Gomita of Osaka, recently captured the attention of the world’s cameras with this extremely tasteful display of a traditional Japanese tattoo, or irezumi.
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This appealing young Chinese lady, looking for all the world like an idol, is having a very peculiar tattoo inked into her back…
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