People removing a tattoo by a laser and excision increase in Japan. Specifically, mayor Hashimoto prohibited a tattoo to the Osaka city staff and became the topic. In recent years, the fashion tattoo is becoming popular with the young generation, but Japanese people still doesn’t accept it from their history and prejudice.

During the Edo period in Japan, the punishment in which a criminal is tattooed on the face or the arm as evidence of a criminal record. Most of members of the antisocial organisation including the Japanese gang has a tattoo. The image of tattoo is that the Yakuza’s symbol is still strong in Japan.

<Limitation and risk of living in Japanese society by having a tattoo.> Here is listing up risks and Japanese peoples’ comments as below .