The self-taught Japanese tattooer known as Sabado opened Eccentric Tattoo Shop in Nagoya in 1993, among the first—if not the first—of Japan’s street shops.

In Japan tattoos have long been stigmatized for their association with organized crime gangs, the Yakuza, who pledge their allegiance with full-body markings. Consequently, ...

Punitive tattooing eventually fell out of favor, but tattoos remained associated with criminality even as decorative and pictorial tattooing began a resurgence. In 1805, a Japanese translation of ...

Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World, a photography exhibit, will remain on display until May 8 at the Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road, in Delray Beach.

The Japanese as a culture has long been noted for its appreciation of beauty, but that does not necessarily extend to the art of tattoo. The show looks at Japanese tattooing and its ties to ukiuyo ...

Sam Yamini founded Dedication Tattoo in 2013, and he brought a style of Japanese-inspired tattooing to Denver that’s magnetic and bold. “I started tattooing in 2001, and back then, there were ...

A tattoo artist works on a man's shoulder during a live exhibit at Chopper Night 2008 in Tokyo July 27, 2008. Although Japanese artists have been extremely popular in the U.K in the last two ...

Somehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way into the hands of a working-class Arkansan who never traveled much of anywhere. Now, its contents have been ...

Ariana Grande recently got a tattoo on her hand, which was meant to say "seven rings" in Japanese, the name of her newest single.; Fans quickly noticed, however, that the two kanji characters ...