【ラグビーＷ杯】日本では選手がタトゥーを隠さないといけない？英紙テレグラフが報じる

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要約
日本で行われるラグビーＷ杯で、選手たちがタトゥーを隠さなければならない、とスポーツ運営団体が言ったと英紙テレグラフが報じる。
日本ではタトゥーはヤクザのシンボルであるとされ長く文化的なタブーとされている。
選手たちは、ジムやプールで着衣を求められるのか質問し始めているという。
トーナメントディレクターのアラン・ギルピンは選手たちは日本の文化に考慮してベストなどの着衣をすることに苦情は言っていないと話す。

Rugby World Cup: Cover up your tattoos in Japan, players told

Tattooed rugby players will be asked to cover up during next year's World Cup in Japan to avoid offending people, the sport's governing body has said.

In Japan, tattoos have long been associated with the notorious yakuza crime syndicates and inked tourists can find themselves barred from traditional communal hot springs, or onsens.

Players are being asked to wear vests when using gyms or pools, reports The Telegraph newspaper.

Tattoos are common within many teams.

But tournament director Alan Gilpin said there had been no objections from players.

"When we raised it with the teams a year or so ago, we were probably expecting a frustrated reaction from them, but there hasn't been at all," The Telegraph quoted him as saying.

"That is a great tribute to the sport itself and to the rugby players themselves. They all also buy into the idea of putting on a rash vest [a shirt used for watersports] in the pool or in a gym as they want to respect the Japanese culture.

"If they are using a public pool, they will have to cover up. Players will also have to wear different trainers indoors and outdoors."
The rules will "all be self-policing", he added.

In 2016, Japan's tourism agency called on spas in the country to relax their rules, pointing out that there are major cultural differences between how tattoos are viewed at home and abroad.

The organisation suggested that onsens and bath houses could offer visitors stickers to cover up their tattoos, or set aside specific times of day when tattooed bathers can use the facilities.

A 2015 survey found that 56% of hotels and inns did not allow tattooed guests to use communal bathing facilities.
Tattoos have not always had a negative image in Japan, but they became linked to the yakuza, or Japanese mafia, in the 1960s after a deluge of films showed heavily-inked gangsters.

The yakuza gangs have been part of Japanese society for centuries and have an estimated 60,000 members.

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