He's being inked from shoulder to wrist ... After the Second World War, Japanese tattoos (known as "irezumi") were strongly tied to Japan's yakuza crime gangs. For decades, mobsters got tattoos ...

A growing number of Japanese enthusiasts ... and gyms ban body tattoos, photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon met some of them at a public bath in Tokyo. The annual gathering of the Irezumi Aikokai (Tattoo ...

Irezumi is a Japanese word that refers to the insertion of ink under the skin to leave a permanent, usually decorative, mark; a form of tattooing. A centuries-old artform, irezumi draws on ...