Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Shoko Tendo - Beauty by Day, Gangster by Night

By Elaine Lies
Picked from Reuters

This is Shoko Tendo.






With her dyed-brown long hair and tight designer jeans, Shoko Tendo looks like any other stylish young Japanese woman -- until she removes her shirt to reveal the vivid tattoos covering her back and most of her body.

The elaborate dragons, phoenixes and a medieval courtesan with one breast bared and a knife between her teeth are a symbol of Tendo's childhood as the daughter of a "yakuza" gangster and her youth as a drug-using gang member.

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