GINOWAN (JAPAN) - Tattoo artist Remy painstakingly injects tiny dots of pigment into customer Koki Hatanaka's bald scalp to mimic hair follicles, performing a grey-zone cosmetic procedure that has increasingly been in the crosshairs of Japanese health authorities.
Japan has been bucking a global trend by viewing permanent make-up as the domain of medical professionals, and has ramped up threats of criminal prosecution against anyone else who practises it -- like the 44-year-old Okinawan Remy.
