Of course, real-life Japanese yakuza are renowned for sporting extensive ink, leading to a nationwide taboo around tattoos that still lingers quite prominently to this day. The writers behind Like ...

Some games, like the Yakuza series, even hire real-life tattoo artists to draw their in-game ink. ... I've seen tattoos like this in real life - they're wild.

The tattoos are real. Yakuza bodysuit tattoos can also be traced to the Edo period, when prisoners were branded with tattoos. Yakuza tattoos cover both arms, parts of the chest, legs, and the ...

Yakuza looked darn good for a PS2 game but Kiwami on PS4 is clearly a big step up. Characters, for example, sport a more significant amount of detail, including skin pores when faces are viewed up ...

The number of yakuza, Japan’s organized crime group members, hit its lowest record since the country’s first anti-organized crime laws passed in 1992, the National Police Agency announced this ...

A retired yakuza boss, who does not wish to be identified, is pictured at his residence in Tokyo in 2009. His tattoo on his back features a carp swimming upstream against a waterfall.

Cyberpunk 2077's tattoos help immerse you in the fictional Night City, Assassin's Creed Valhalla's ink lets players customize their own historically accurate Viking, and Yakuza's ink provides ...

Zoo has teamed up with Sega Australia and is offering one reader the chance to get a real-life replica back tattoo that Yakuza 3's protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has. This is what could appear on your back.

Dragon tattoo. If you haven’t played any Yakuza games before, ... First of all, he is in the business of real estate and claims no ties to Yakuza, especially Dojima. Secondly, ...

I was based in central Tokyo for a few days, which made getting to Kabukicho (the real-world basis for Yakuza's seedy Kamurocho district) easy, and Yokosuka (the setting for Shenmue, about 40 ...