"I'm doing nothing I should be ashamed of," Tatsuki Miyahira, an Okinawa tattooist who also performs SMP, told AFP. "Nowadays lots of people get their bodies inked just for fashion" in Japan, SMP business operator Yasuaki Sameshima, 41, told AFP. In fact, he campaigns for the systematic accreditation and training of all tattoo artists -- cosmetic or not -- in an industry he says remains an ungoverned "grey zone". Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"Every country has some kind of licence specifically for doing tattoos, but Japan hasn't created that," Remy said. He founded the Japan Tattoo Hygiene Association, with the ultimate goal of making its programme mainstream and even mandatory for the opening of tattoo parlours.