Scar Factory: Extreme Body Modification in Japan - Softcover

Maeda, Ryoichi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840681381 ISBN 13: 9781840681383

Publisher: Creation Books, 2007

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Synopsis:

This is the first book to reveal the shocking Body Mod scene in Japan! As with most things they embrace, the Japanese have taken the western cult of Extreme Body Modification and taken it to new extremes in recent years. "Scar Factory" is a document of the Japanese scene in words and pictures. It includes: Japanese tours by scarification and piercing/implant artists Lukas Zpira and Steve Haworth; interviews with extreme manga artists Hideo Yamamoto ("Ichi the Killer") and Kago Shintaro; a pictorial history of Torture Garden Japan; clandestine tribal gatherings in Osaka, Tokyo and Kyoto; branding festival in Tokyo, 2004; body suspension parties in Tokyo; Eizo Mamiza, Japanese Body Mod pioneer; interviews with Extreme Body Mod practitioners; and over 200 colour photos. "Scar Factory" is yet another eye-popping, cutting-edge document of the Japanese underground from Creation Books.

The key features include: full color throughout; over 200 graphic and revealing photos; first book on the Japanese body modification scene to be published in the West; interviews with Japanese fetishists, tattooists and piercers, manga artists and body-morphers; another cutting-edge study of Japanese culture from Creation; and National press coverage, full online promotion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Creation Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1840681381
• ISBN 13: 9781840681383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96