i know tattoos are seeing as something bad in Japanese culture so if a person (a foreigner) gets a tattoo in Japanese writing.
Would japanese people see that as offensive or disrespectful?

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@ccidk I don't think people consider it as offensive. And as long as you are happy with this kind of tattoo, it's no one's business. But to be honest, personally I'm not a huge fun of kanji tattoos, mainly from 2 reasons: 1) because I can't recognise any artistic effort at most of them. (For the record, I'm a tattoo lover.) Maybe for those without knowledge of Japanese it's already cool to have an exotic letter on their arm, even this letter looks like as if you just copy-pasted it from a windows font. To me, not. 2) Many of tattoos have no meaning. As I said, it's personal choice and taste. It's also possible that a combination of kanjis which says to me nothing but someones ignorance, does actually mean something to them. But I can't help judging those with cryptical letters on their back.
I genuinely hope that someday, there will be artists who can design cool kanji-tattoos with their artistry.