Tattoo's are banned at onsen in Japan, you can't have them if you go into the hot springs.
I'd just like to slim it up a bit, to me from the back it's way off proportion from my waist, I'd rather not draw attention to it quite yet. I might just say screw it and get it anyway, but since I'll have the opportunity to get in better shape when I go to the desert, might as well wait and see, considering I won't be able to get until I get back regardless.
Depends on how and how many you do. In basic training, I was PT monitor and I got in trouble a lot, so I was doing so many pushups to the point where it toned then it built muscle. I wasn't born like that, I just never paid attention to it until I figured out I wanted a tattoo all across the back. Then it was like whoa, mebe I should wait. If I just had a little chub chub I wouldn't care, but being out of shape has taken me out of proportion.
Even though Shana already answered: Yeah, Tats are banned in majority of the public baths in Japan. It's kind of a shame. First one I went to I almost got cavity searched for tattoos (wouldn't want that colon tattoo to leak my bad soul into the water!)
Mostly it is just a traditional holdover, most of the young Japanese society has given into tattoos being cool (hence the slow allowance of tats in baths, I'd really wager maybe 5-9% of all of them in Japan being cool with it, though that isn't a scientific figure) most of the elderly business owning types still believe that A: Bad blood, bad spirits and bad ink will flow out in the water (due in part to the belief that the bath causes you to release internal conflicts anyways) B: that whole silly tattoos=Yakuza bit.
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And why do you need to slim up your back for your ink? Your back is fine. Besides, shouldn't pushups only tone your back?
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I'd just like to slim it up a bit, to me from the back it's way off proportion from my waist, I'd rather not draw attention to it quite yet. I might just say screw it and get it anyway, but since I'll have the opportunity to get in better shape when I go to the desert, might as well wait and see, considering I won't be able to get until I get back regardless.
Depends on how and how many you do. In basic training, I was PT monitor and I got in trouble a lot, so I was doing so many pushups to the point where it toned then it built muscle. I wasn't born like that, I just never paid attention to it until I figured out I wanted a tattoo all across the back. Then it was like whoa, mebe I should wait. If I just had a little chub chub I wouldn't care, but being out of shape has taken me out of proportion.
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Yeah, Tats are banned in majority of the public baths in Japan.
It's kind of a shame. First one I went to I almost got cavity searched for tattoos (wouldn't want that colon tattoo to leak my bad soul into the water!)
Mostly it is just a traditional holdover, most of the young Japanese society has given into tattoos being cool (hence the slow allowance of tats in baths, I'd really wager maybe 5-9% of all of them in Japan being cool with it, though that isn't a scientific figure) most of the elderly business owning types still believe that
A: Bad blood, bad spirits and bad ink will flow out in the water (due in part to the belief that the bath causes you to release internal conflicts anyways)
B: that whole silly tattoos=Yakuza bit.
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*falls asleep*
BRA
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*kick*
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