Unlike those popular in the West, tattoos in Japan have their own narrative and do not borrow from other cultures
Models show their bodies covered with tattoos by Japanese tattoo artist Horiyoshii III, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo. For Horiyoshi III, the skin into which he sinks his ink-infused needle is a living canvas for the myths and legends of Japan, where body art is indelibly linked to the violent gangsters of the criminal underworld -- the yakuza.