Japan’s Tattoo OutlawsA landmark legal battle over the future of tattooing erupts in Japan after police crack down on tattoo artists in Osaka. Read more In April 2015, five police detectives raided Taiki Masuda’s tattoo studio in the Japanese prefecture of Osaka. He was accused of breaking the law by operating without a doctor’s licence. According to the country’s Medical Practitioner’s Act: “No person except a medical
