TOKYO – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opened at No.1 in Japan at the weekend, taking 288.5 million yen ($3.68 million) over the three days from just over 227,500 admissions at 431 screens ...

‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Debuts in Japan to Limited Censoring. On the heels of a theatrical ban in India, a Tokyo screening of David Fincher's film screened with only some mosaic-blurring ...

Japan's Bunshin Tattoo Museum in Yokohama is dedicated to the work of Yoshihito Nakano, who is better known in the body art world as Horiyoshi III, a master of traditional Japanese tattooing.

Some commentators have predicted that Japan's conservative attitude to tattoos could soften with the arrival of thousands of inked foreigners for the Rugby World Cup and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The Queen's grandfather, Prince George of Wales - the future George V who reigned from 1910 to 1936 - and his brother, Prince Albert Victor, visited Japan as teenagers in 1881.

The style of Japanese tattoo artist Gakkin, known for his freehand work of incorporating macabre elements into beautiful tattoos.

Gakkin, a native of Wakayama and now a resident of Amsterdam, draws freehand, forgoing modern stencil machines to work directly on the body.

Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created the enormously popular and influential Dragon Ball series, died of a brain condition last week at the age of 68, his production studio ...