Japan mayor: I wouldn’t hire tattooed stars Johnny Depp, Lady Gaga

Mayor Toru Hashimoto this week said that public employees “should go to the private sector” if they want to keep their tattoos.

City authorities carried out a survey of their staff to ask whether they had any, whether they were normally concealed by clothing or not. More than 100 sanitation, public transport and other workers admitted they had tattoos.

Asked by a reporter about Hollywood stars with tattoos, the mayor responded, “If Johnny Depp or Lady Gaga asked to become Osaka city employees, I would just say ‘no’.”

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