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Osaka city finds 110 tattooed workers, plans ban
The Osaka city government asked its employees to fill out this questionnaire to report any tattoos. (Yuki Nakazato)
May 17, 2012
OSAKA--Despite heated criticism, the Osaka city government carried out an exhaustive survey on its employees and discovered that 110 of them sport tattoos.
Osaka trying to ID city employees who have tattoos
A survey by the Osaka city government asks employees if they got inked with an illustration of a human body so that they can mark the spots they have tattoos. (The Asahi Shimbun)
May 03, 2012
OSAKA--Controversial Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto wants to know if any of his city's employees have tattoos, which have long been associated with the yakuza in Japan, and if so,...
Chinese army to allow tattoos, pudgy recruits
November 04, 2011
BEIJING -- The Chinese military is beefing up--and getting a little more colorful as well.
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