SCAR FACTORY
EXTREME BODY MODIFICATION
IN JAPAN

RYOICHI "KEROPPY" MAEDA

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 “mod” scene in words and pictures, featuring scenes of scarification, tongue-splitting, branding, implanting, tattooing, hook suspension, and more.

Includes:
Japanese tours by scalpel master Lukas Zpira and implants originator Steve Haworth
Interviews with extreme manga artists Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Shintaro Kago
A photographic history of Torture Garden Japan
Clandestine tribal gatherings in Osaka, Tokyo and Kyoto
Branding festival in Tokyo, 2004
Eizo Mamiza, Japanese Body Mod pioneer
Interviews with Extreme Body Mod practitioners
Tattoo and modification gallery
Over 200 graphic and revealing colour photos

In full color throughout and full-sized, SCAR FACTORY is a lavish cutting-edge document of the Japanese underground, the first official book on the Japanese body modification scene to be published in the West. Written and compiled by renowned underground photo-journalist Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda, SCAR FACTORY reveals the most clandestine, bloody and extreme Japanese fetish activity.