The practice of tattooing has long been associated with the yakuza and many places in Japan still bar people bearing the body ...

Walk into any public bath in Japan and you're liable to see a sign banning any visible tattoos. Even as Japan opens up to more international tourists and residents, body art remains taboo, not only at ...

OSAKA - Walk into any public bath in Japan and you're liable to see a sign banning any visible tattoos. Even as Japan opens up to more international tourists and residents, body art remains taboo, not ...

Defendants plead guilty in a lot of criminal cases in Japan. Some of this can be attributed to things such as cultural values about personal accountability or infrastructure advantages like a wide ...

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that ...