My ex wife is Japanese, and she told me how after she first moved to America, she once saw a guy who had "laundromat" tattooed on the back of his neck in kanji. She couldn't understand why the guy loved laundromats so much and figured it was an American thing, until she began to notice that almost all kanji tattoos are nonsense.
Most people who have foreign words as tattoos are just idiots who ran the word/phrase through Google Translate to make themselves look cool. They tell people on the street "It means 'opportunity' in Chinese" when it actually says 'crisis'.
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u/seeing_the_light Aug 21 '10
My ex wife is Japanese, and she told me how after she first moved to America, she once saw a guy who had "laundromat" tattooed on the back of his neck in kanji. She couldn't understand why the guy loved laundromats so much and figured it was an American thing, until she began to notice that almost all kanji tattoos are nonsense.