[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

I don't think anyone has asked this before (if they have I totally missed it) but I noticed there is a lot of problems with the association with Yakuza to having a tattoo. Just because you have a tattoo, doesn't mean you are a gang member.

Why is this so? A lot of cultures and people have tattoos as symbolic representations.

In the past was there some sort of incident involving Yakuza and hot springs etc.

From what is written here, if you have a tattoo, no matter who you are, it is frowned upon.

Having a tattoo in Japan must mean you are in a gang. It is probably so intergraded into their society that that response is natural?