in terms of the old establishment we know that tatooine is seen to be somewhat taboo in japan becauses starting to change?” —— tattooing. how is that attitude is starting to change? i would state it is starting to change only because the government is thinking about the 2020 olympics, who are encouraging a lot of commercial establishments to open up a lot of these places where you have to expose your skin, like the bathhouses, beaches, hot springs. most of them have signed up to say that if you have tattoos you can't get in, so they are encouraging to open up. but on the other hand there's a strong prejudice and stigma attached to tatooine in general in japan, so stigma attached to tatooine in general injapan, so i wouldn't say it's happening too fast —— tattooing. as you say they want to open up ahead of the olympics in 2020. is there something of a double standard at the moment, with foreigners allowed to have tattoos versus japanese? absolutely. i mean, this is not just versus japanese? absolutely. i mean, this is notjust happening now, historically it's been like this for hundreds