One of the most interesting things about Yakuza 3 is how you keep running into men with enormous, fantastic tattoos. Well, those tats are the work of one man: Kazuaki Kitamura.
Better known as Horitomo, he's a Japanese tattoo artist who, while working in Yokohama, was drafted in by Sega to design the trademark body art for the Yakuza series.
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He's worked on every game since, including the just-released Yakuza 3 (which I really enjoyed). If you're a fan, either of tattoos or just the series, Horitomo's currently working in San Jose. I'm not recommending this, but if you were going to get a gaming piece anyway, one from the guy who does gangster tattoos for the Yakuza series would be pretty awesome.
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The Ink Of Yakuza 3 [PlayStation]
DISCUSSION
I would imagine that besides doing tattoos for Yakuza games, he would also do tattoos for actual Yakuza.
Isn't getting Tattoos in Japan pretty much exclusive to Yakuza? I don't think I've ever seen a J-Pop star, AV Idol, or any other Japanese person with a tattoo.