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Originally Posted by bELyVIS
I'd like to see what would happen if the tattoo was a reference to death and the Japanese could see it. That person would probably be treated worse than Yakuza since death is such a taboo thing there.
I knew a guy who was a funeral director in Japan and he had other business cards made up saying he worked in chemicals because he gave a funeral director card to a girl (she didn't understand his job when he told her), and she went running and screaming away.
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That girl.... has problems.
Benjamin Franklin: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”
Death should not be taboo. It's an unavoidable part of life and there HAS to be people that deal with that matter. And those people deserve respect for doing so. I don't care if it's a part of culture or whatever, it's sad that death is looked at like some bad omen or curse. Fortunately, the girl you spoke of is a nut case and that situation is rare. Most people in Japan (this generation) have a better open-eyed view.
Still, I was appalled to hear that such things as "burakumin" still affected people today.
That is baseless discrimination that is fortunately, but slowly, being squeezed out of the Japanese society.