These astonishing photographs give an unprecedented glimpse inside the world of the Yakuza, the Japanese organised crime syndicates, known for their brutality, tattoos and strict code of honour ...

Among the most difficult to save are those that live in water. David and Jane Pierce have owned — and loved — these koi fish for 25 years.Credit...Stella Kalinina for The New York Times ...

While the men hunt birds and small mammals, or fish, the women tattoo other women. BODY OF ART: Garbhi Dasin Tharuni shows elephants and warriors tattoed on her arm. Ghurni Chaudhary, 70, from Saptari ...

But when they noticed the roughly scrawled tattoo on her lower arm bearing the simple blue inked word ‘chaos,’ their blood froze. Two months earlier, in May 1998, 25-year-old mum of three ...