Truly a defiant tattoo and one that accurately reflects her unhappy childhood and subsequent deliquency including addiction and a series of abusive relationships. If anyone knows the mind and soul of the Yakuza and has the tattoos and scars to match, it is this young lady.
"I hated the way my father behaved, But then I became just like him. I was a glue-addicted delinquent like a junior yakuza, picking fights and not caring about how other people felt."
After years of relative calm, the yakuza have recently captured the public imagination in Japan. The swearing-in two summers ago of a new godfather of Japan's biggest underworld organisation, the Yamaguchi-gumi, was followed by a spate of shootings of high-level gangland bosses.
