TATTOOS in JAPAN: 3 FOREIGNERS TELL THEIR STORIES

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  • čas přidán 13. 11. 2018
  • The problem of tattoos in Japan: Three foreigners with tattoos in Japan are sharing their stories with Ask Japanese.
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Komentáře • 136

  • @Mwoods2272
    @Mwoods2272 Před 5 lety +128

    When Japanese people see a White guy with tattoos, they know he's not in the Yakuza.

  • @barupens8141
    @barupens8141 Před 5 lety +67

    The english translation lmao

  • @judy6520
    @judy6520 Před 5 lety +123

    Pretty rough translation of the Hungarian girl: (may not be accurate)

  • @Lurow7
    @Lurow7 Před 5 lety +32

    I never had a problem with tattoos in onsen. Even in places, where there is a "no tattoo" sign, the owners were totally fine with it when I talked to them and said it's okay for foreigners. Also inside I talked to a lot of the older generation and they quite enjoyed having the tattoo culture in the west explained.

  • @Mecks089
    @Mecks089 Před 5 lety +19

    It's still sad that such old concepts still floods their minds with fear, when in reality the Yakuza are pretty much being withered away by time.

  • @o.g.millennials
    @o.g.millennials Před 5 lety +23

    Would've been better with an official English translation for that one part.

  • @Miraiwhitelock
    @Miraiwhitelock Před 5 lety +26

    I can just hear the first dude is Dutch because of the way he speaks English (his accent).

  • @MillennialTravelConfessions

    Great video and interesting topic, thanks for sharing Cathy!

  • @valak1178
    @valak1178 Před 3 lety +9

    For me tattoos it's not about crime

  • @elitgunz2459
    @elitgunz2459 Před 4 lety +8

    I found people more curious than afraid of us in Japan because of our tattoos, but we found out a lot of older people were afraid of us just for being foreigners, because at the time we didn´t even had our tattoos visible and they changed sidewalks and train carts when they saw us

  • @Figgy5119
    @Figgy5119 Před 5 lety +8

    Studying abroad one of our group had a little sun tattoo on her ankle. When we were leaving the desk staff said an old Grandma complained that she thinks we are yakuza because one person had a little sun on her ankle and we were asked that none of us come back. The staff seemed apologetic, like they obviously didn't think that, but even as the old Grandma want there to make sure they told us this, they felt obligated to alienate a big number of us from the neighboring study abroad school. We passed that info on to our school so they lost all of our patronage.

  • @xxwallzxx4509
    @xxwallzxx4509 Před 5 lety

    Another amazing video you two. Wish you guys the best and much happiness. 🤗

  • @mailun-whislife
    @mailun-whislife Před 5 lety +2

    Nice topic!! We live in Canad now and actually so surprised that so many people have tatoo!!

  • @DonJoe94
    @DonJoe94 Před 5 lety +8

    2:45

  • @user-ly3ed7bu1u
    @user-ly3ed7bu1u Před 5 lety +5

    omgg director-san's Japanese is almost like a native level! I'm really glad that people from abroad study the Japanese language 😎

  • @vaio9557
    @vaio9557 Před 5 lety +7

    日本はタトゥーに反対とか賛成とかそういう事ではなく、日本の場合、タトゥーをしている人が何処でも出入り出来るようにしてしまうと、そこにヤクザ屋さんなどの人たちが入ってきて様々なトラブルを起こし、一般の人が被害に遭うという現実があります。昔の日本がそうでした。私の家族も大変な目に遭ったことがあります。

  • @MrWillager
    @MrWillager Před 5 lety +7

    "Wear" tattoos? Never heard that before. It's "have" tattoos.

  • @danavipuzzles7308
    @danavipuzzles7308 Před 3 lety +8

    I would imagine that the strict regulations may be more lenient for foreigners, especially tourists who are just visiting. Nevertheless, it sucks that they are so restrictive there for people with tattoos. I have tattoos on my neck and face, so I don't think that Japan would be the best place for me to visit.

  • @icegds18
    @icegds18 Před rokem +4

    Just a heads up for anyone who wants to move to Japan the bias about tattoos has gone down some and is slowly getting better

  • @valchiridran
    @valchiridran Před 5 lety +4

    Had to rely on what little Japanese I learned watching the 3rd interview. XP