Well for my opinion, tatoos can be view diffrently by ones culture.
some say their bad some good. here in the philippines, well back at
ancient philippines tatoos are view as a kind of social symbol as well
as social status. the more you got, the more your popular..etc. and
women can also have tatoos. i dont know when it come with japanese but
i bet their somewhat related. 

hey we were under japanese rule in ww2. alot of our culture is jap
related and infuenced.
 
Motoko Chan
Motoko_section9@yahoo.com


---Rhialto  wrote:

Does anyone have any cultural information relating to Japanese

reactions

to tatoos? I *think* it is assumed that anyone with a tatoo is assumed
to be a gangster, but that may be based on stereotypes more than
anything else. Anyone have any solid info?

private replies, you can trust me to post the collated results to the
list once I get some good answers.

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Rhialto

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