25 Japanese tiger tattoo designs and their meaning In Japanese tattoo culture, tigers are considered a symbol of courage, ...

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But encounters with Europeans in the 1800s changed that, according to Yoshimi Yamamoto, a cultural anthropologist at Tsuru University, who has studied tattoo culture in Japan and Taiwan.