Japanese Tattoo Laws
9 2018 in japanese legal background in 2000 in response to an inquiry by the national police agency the ministry of health labour and welfare mhlw notified the agency that coloring skin by injecting colors into it with a needle is regarded as a medical act.
Japanese tattoo laws. The case at question involved a 32 year old tattoo artist named taiki who had been fined 150 000 yen a little more than 1 400 after tattooing three people. Wabori tattoo designs are influced from buddhism and chinese japanese mythology. In a concurring opinion presiding justice koichi kusano said that a new law should be made if there is a need for legal restrictions to prevent risks from tattoo procedures. Japanese calligrapher hayato suzuki writes chinese characters while tattoo artist horimyo right tattoos on his leg in tokyo in 2009.
The case had been working its way through the courts for quite some time but wednesday s ruling came out of. In some regional laws it is generally against the law to tattoo minors. For the first time in history the supreme court of japan has ruled that it is not illegal to tattoo without a medical license. Has no licensing system for tattoo artists or law to.