Cultural Issues! The news are spreading to the new media! A journalist risking his life! I am not sure what are his motivation. But I still have the feeling that with the Japanese & Yakuza culture, he should not get involved with this! Anyway, too late now!
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“The tattoos are so dense that it’s very hard to sweat, which means when you can’t get rid of the toxines that’s also very hard on the liver”
Uh ?!?!? Reporters are hopefully not medics… yakuzas have the reputation of drinking a lot of alcohol : this could as well come from that, or any other infinitely more plausible reason. No, he just blames tattoos, improvising idiotic and never heard of medical theories (“don’t get tattoed kids, or at most, a ‘love you, Mom’ up your bottom, else, your liver would never sustain the load”… purely cretinized).
Should he have the same deontology when he speaks about presumed illegal activities, no wonder if he ends up in a concrete wall… Reporters… aaarrrggghhh…
Thank you for your comment, there are many things that the liver has to deal with to keep our system functioning. It is obvious that alcohol, stress, etc might have played an important role on his problems. Tattoos might have played a role too. I personally believe too that alcohol & stress made more damage. However it is a balance. All aspects of one life’s style are to consider in the equation. Yes journalists like to dramatise things. However, I have heard from direct witnesses about skin breathing and full body tattoos in Japan. I have been recommended not to do a full body suit for those reasons. Then again if everything else in my life was healthy, it might not be a problem. What I find especially interesting in this video? Is the American policy regarding Liver transplant.
Hello Yoso !
Still : skin breathing problems have never been observed by any doctor due to tattoos (not the same can be said about the simple body painting). And without any scientific proof, this is no more than an urban legend, like “tattooing means skin cancer” (statistics prove otherwise).
In France, we have a collegium of doctors (Académie Nationale de Médecine, ie National Medecine Academy), constituted from almost only reactionnary persons. And even as conservative and opposed to tattoing as they may be, the only thing they’ve managed to proove is that tattooed persons tend to have more marginal behaviours (they implied tattoing means you’ll tend to be gay – no kidding, you’ll tend to drug yourself, and involve in unprotected sex… when it’s just more probable that already “marginal” persons will tend to get tattooed – the cause and consequence dilemma).
Anyway, apart from diseases transmission through the needles, some harmful ink lots, and such things, nothing bad has ever been proven of coming from tattoos. My point was just that : when even medics cannot manage to proove that, how can a reporter relay what is still a urban legend ? Well, the answer is the question, I guess : he’s a reporter. Still…
Anyway, as for the transplant policy, the US policy already done the same thing with rich snatches a lot of times, especially with south american cocaine dealers (who they financed a lot, while still pretending to wage war on drugs, by the way). I am not really surprized about this.