January 14, 2021
Japanese Boxer Faces Penalty for Baring Tattoos in the Ring
Over his 11 years’ boxing career, flyweight world champion Kazuto Ioka has had a fair share of battles. But the…
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Over his 11 years’ boxing career, flyweight world champion Kazuto Ioka has had a fair share of battles. But the…
Horihiro Mitomo is a horishi, or tattoo artist, who works entirely by hand in his studios in Tokyo and Osaka,…
Matsuda Takahiro runs a restaurant on the outskirts of Tokyo. He serves food that goes well with a few cold…
Mariana Hoar remembers the fear of living under Japanese occupation—and the pain. “When the Japanese came, we already tattooed ourselves…