Ainu Tattoos: Sacred Protection, Then a Crime

For the Love of History by Tehya N.

Sep 18, 202627:43History

Everyone knows Japan has a complicated relationship with tattoos — but most people blame the wrong group. Long before the Yakuza gave tattoos their modern stigma, Japan's indigenous Ainu people were being punished, shame...

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