A Japanese tabloid put "people make too much fuss about tattoos these days" in its headline. I read all 1,123 comments underneath. The most-agreed one in the thread is from someone who hires people, and it says they do not hire anyone with a tattoo — 27.4 per cent of the vote. This thread is not making a fuss. It is turning people down quietly
The headline said people make too much fuss. At the top of 1,123 comments sits someone who hires staff and does not hire anyone with a tattoo. Twenty-three comments — two per cent — say the writer personally turns such people away, and those twenty-three hold 28.4 per cent of the vote. This thread is not making a fuss. It is refusing people without telling them why.
How the votes fell
Ranked by upvotes. Left of the slash is agree, right is disagree. This is where the resentment actually sits.
- 1st 10146 ∕ 498 I work in human resources, and we do not hire anyone with a tattoo. It may be fine in show business, but in ordinary society it brings nothing but trouble, and it is not something an ordinary person should get out of admiration or a misunderstanding. You cannot use a swimming pool or a public bath. In awkward places, in front of children, you cover it with a sleeve. The disadvantages plainly pile up, and I cannot hand work to someone who cannot weigh that. People go on about how it is abroad, but this is Japan. If anything I would like to hear the reason it had to be done
- 2nd 5484 ∕ 200 Something a relative told me — they went to collect an unpaid water bill, were invited inside the door, and the man suddenly stripped to the waist, showed his tattoo and said, you know what comes next. My relative said it was terrifying. Some people will say that is an irezumi, not a tattoo, but an ordinary person cannot tell the two apart (I cannot either). While there are still people using it that way, it is only natural that both get read the same
- 3rd 2491 ∕ 91 Moderation matters in everything, and fashion taken too far is self-indulgence. In Japan a lot of the people with tattoos carry themselves aggressively, and they announce that tattoos are normal in the rest of the world and Japan is behind — without noticing that they are the reason. Most people abroad with tattoos do not put them on display like that. Until it starts there, tattoos will not be accepted in this country
- 4th 2239 ∕ 50 Why will a stick-on tattoo not do? If a tattoo is fashion, then something you can change with your clothes or your mood should be better. Do you not get bored of the same design forever? Even a favourite shirt is not worn every day. And when you are old and the skin loosens, that prized tattoo is going to look strange
- 5th 1404 ∕ 66 In show business there is genuinely a side to tattoos that is personal expression and culture. But if you are commercially successful with fans from children to adults, some care about that influence is essential. As a professional paid a great deal, you should hold a sharper awareness of how you present yourself rather than claiming only your freedom
I read all 1,123 top-level comments. This is the thread about twenty-three hours after publication, at seven on the morning of 24 September 2026. The article shows 1,643 comments in total, and the replies displayed under the top-level comments come to 454. The buttons — 37,012 agree, 2,077 that-explains-it, 2,606 hmm — 94 to 6. Against the 53 threads counted here before, this one is on the aligned side. The vote is very top-heavy — one comment alone holds 10,146 presses, 27.4 per cent of the agree total, the top five hold 58.8 per cent, the top ten 70.8 per cent, the top twenty 81.4 per cent and the top thirty 85.5 per cent. The bottom of the thread is silent — 337 of the 1,123 comments, 30.0 per cent, never got a single agree press, 210 comments, 18.7 per cent, were never touched by any button at all, and 106 comments, 9.4 per cent, collected more hmm than agree. The average comment runs 94.9 Japanese characters, and 102 comments run past 200. Now to what stands out. The most-agreed comment in the thread is from someone who works in hiring, and it says they do not hire anyone with a tattoo — 10,146 presses, 27.4 per cent of the vote. Counting every comment where the writer says they personally refuse — I do not hire them, we turn them away, they do not pass the check — gives 23 comments, 2.0 per cent of the thread, carrying 10,496 presses, 28.4 per cent of the vote. They include someone in hiring, someone who works in property rental, someone describing venues that refuse entry, and someone who asked why a clinic refuses the work. Not one of the 23 says the reason was ever given to the person refused. Next, what the thread was talking about. Comments naming somewhere you cannot go — hot springs, public baths, swimming pools, gyms — come to 116, 10.3 per cent, carrying 12,269 presses, 33.1 per cent of the vote. Comments about hiring, job interviews and the workplace come to 46, 4.1 per cent, carrying 11,593 presses, 31.3 per cent. Comments that name Japan itself — in Japan, Japanese society, this is Japan — come to 94, 8.4 per cent, carrying 15,016 presses, 40.6 per cent. Comments about children, imitation and admiration come to 117, 10.4 per cent, carrying 15,076 presses, 40.7 per cent. Comments about celebrities and show business come to 185, 16.5 per cent, carrying 15,193 presses, 41.0 per cent. By contrast, comments that mention the man himself at all — his name, his group, his wife, this person, he — come to 86, 7.7 per cent, carrying 2,466 presses, 6.7 per cent of the vote. Nine tenths of the thread is not about him. And the largest figure the count produced belongs to none of those subjects — comments touching on hiding it, not showing it, not flaunting it, being in front of others come to 84, 7.5 per cent, and carry 15,476 presses, 41.8 per cent of the vote. The vote is not with do not get one; it is with do not let us see it. The replies are worth a line too. The thread carries 454 replies, of which 182 — 40.1 per cent — hang under the single top comment, and 301, 66.3 per cent, under the top five; 1,084 of the 1,123 comments, 96.5 per cent, have no reply at all. Here is the core of this one. The headline was assembled from four accepting replies — too much fuss, personal freedom, a fashion item, he is a celebrity. I counted what those four are worth inside the thread. Comments containing the phrase for making too much fuss come to 66, 5.9 per cent, and carry 239 presses, 0.6 per cent of the vote. Comments containing the exact phrase for personal freedom come to 57, 5.1 per cent, carrying 1,922 presses, 5.2 per cent. Comments of the form he is a celebrity, so come to 44, 3.9 per cent, carrying 762 presses, 2.1 per cent. Only the word fashion is large — 173 comments, 15.4 per cent, carrying 8,041 presses, 21.7 per cent — and reading them, they are overwhelmingly arguments against calling it fashion. Comments touching on being behind the times, old values, these days, the Showa era come to 135, 12.0 per cent, carrying 2,168 presses, 5.9 per cent. Then the word freedom. Comments using a word for freedom or doing as you please come to 156, 13.9 per cent, carrying 4,828 presses, 13.0 per cent. Of those, 60 — 38.5 per cent — turn inside the same comment towards dislike, wariness or refusal. The shape is the freedom to get one set beside the freedom to dislike it. I also read the top thirty by hand. Exactly one says the writer holds no prejudice and finds tattoos attractive — 22nd by agree, 200 presses — and even that one goes on to say that plenty of people dislike them, that work will be harder and hot springs restricted, and that this has to be accepted with open eyes. A word about the vocabulary. Comments using only the loanword tattoo come to 423, 37.7 per cent, carrying 31.5 per cent of the vote; comments using only the Japanese word irezumi or shisei come to 165, 14.7 per cent, carrying 31.8 per cent; comments using both come to 129, 11.5 per cent, carrying 26.8 per cent; and 406 comments, 36.2 per cent, use neither, carrying 9.8 per cent. The loanword is more than twice as common, and the vote splits almost in thirds. The second-placed comment ends by saying an ordinary person cannot tell the two apart. Now the pushback. The comment with the most hmm presses in the thread is the same comment that has the most agree presses — 498 of them. The steepest ratio belongs to a comment saying a tattoo is only a nice picture and that the people who feel disgust are the ones who should adjust — 5 agree against 66 hmm, 13.2 times, 222nd by agree. Next is a comment saying that anyone living a straight, decent life would never arrive at the idea — 4 agree against 49 hmm, 12.2 times, 302nd. This thread pushes back on both flat statements. What I have not checked. I have not verified whether the mark on his arm is a tattoo at all. The article rests on a photograph and on replies posted under it, and some comments in the thread say it cannot be told from the picture. I have also not checked, against any statistics, how hiring or entry policies actually work in Japan. What this note counts is what the thread wrote. Counted but not quoted. Comments containing a word of abuse — idiot, fool, trash, bottom-feeder, stupid, contempt — come to 50, 4.5 per cent, carrying 873 presses, 2.4 per cent of the vote. Comments mocking someone's appearance come to 79, 7.0 per cent, carrying 552 presses, 1.5 per cent. Comments touching on foreigners, tourists or inbound visitors come to 16, 1.4 per cent, carrying 1,148 presses, 3.1 per cent. This site counts comments that mock appearance or turn on foreigners and does not reproduce them. Finally, the answer to what I expected. I expected that in Japan the truth is never said to your face, and that people say nice things instead. Comments that say so outright come to one in 1,123, with zero agree presses. Widened to every comment touching on not saying it, not being able to, real feelings against stated ones, it is twenty — 1.8 per cent, 1.2 per cent of the vote. The thread does not write that it says nothing. It writes that it does not hire, and that carries 28.4 per cent of the vote. The comment shared from this site's account is 13th by agree, with 541 presses, 19 that-explains-it and 42 hmm — the one saying there is a freedom to get a tattoo and a freedom not to like it. On the name. This man performs in public under a published stage name, and the article concerns a photograph he published himself, so I have written it as reported. This site withholds names only for private individuals caught up in crimes and accidents.
What happened
At ten to eight on the morning of Wednesday 23 September 2026, the sports tabloid Nishispo WEB OTTO! published a short piece on Yahoo! News Japan.
TAKAHIRO, the singer of the group EXILE, had posted rehearsal photographs on Instagram ahead of a solo concert at the Nippon Budokan on 25 September. He is in a black T-shirt with a microphone, standing at a music stand.
In the photograph, a tattoo is visible on his upper arm.
The article collects the replies to that photograph. Some are about the concert and about how he has always taken his singing seriously. Then come the replies about the arm — why do people in this scene get tattoos, it is personal freedom, tattoos are recognised as a fashion item these days, people make far too much fuss about a tattoo these days, well, he is a celebrity.
The headline was built from the accepting half of that list. "People make too much fuss about tattoos these days" became the headline, with "a fashion item" and "he is a celebrity" beneath it.
Then 1,123 people wrote in the comment thread on Yahoo! News.
What I expected
In Japan, the thing that counts as true is the thing somebody says to your face.
And the true thing is never said to your face. Not by your family, not by your friends. Nobody wants the trouble. So they say they like it.
The real words collect somewhere else, in threads like this one, as accumulated irritation. That is the part nobody reads.
And once the ink is in, there is no going back. So you have to say it is cool, it is the fashion now, the people who object are stuck in the past. None of which changes how this country actually reads a tattoo.
That was my expectation. So this time I counted for it directly. Does this thread say it tells people? Or does it say it keeps quiet?
94 to 6 — 1,123 comments, about twenty-three hours in
I read all 1,123 top-level comments. The article shows 1,643 in total; the replies displayed come to 454.
The buttons: 37,012 agree, 2,077 that-explains-it, 2,606 hmm. That is 94 to 6.
Against the 53 threads counted here before, this one is on the aligned side. The most divided was a car-park thread at 63 to 37.
The vote is very top-heavy. One comment holds 10,146 presses, 27.4 per cent of all the agree in the thread; the top five hold 58.8 per cent, the top ten 70.8, the top twenty 81.4, the top thirty 85.5.
The bottom is silent. Of 1,123 comments, 337 — 30.0 per cent — never got a single agree press, and 210 — 18.7 per cent — were never touched by any button at all.
The average comment runs 94.9 Japanese characters. A hundred and two run past 200.
The loudest comment in the thread is written by someone who hires people
Here is the comment the thread read most.
I work in human resources, and we do not hire anyone with a tattoo. It may be fine in show business, but in ordinary society it brings nothing but trouble. It is not something an ordinary person should get out of admiration and a misunderstanding. You cannot use a swimming pool or a public bath. In awkward places, in front of children, you cover it with a sleeve, do you not. The disadvantages plainly pile up, and I cannot hand work to someone who cannot weigh that up. People go on about how it is done abroad, but this is Japan. If anything, I would like to hear the reason it had to be done.
人事関連の仕事をしているけれど、入れ墨が入っている人は採用しませんね。
芸能界では良いんでしょうけれど、一般社会では面倒なことにしかなりません。一般人が憧れて勘違いして入れるものではありません。
プールや銭湯にも行けない。
子供の前とか気まずい場所ではサポーターをして隠すんですよね。
どう考えても不利益が増えるのに、そういう損得が考えられない人に仕事を任せるわけにはいかない。
海外ではどうのこうのと言うが、ここは日本です。
逆にそこまでして入れ墨を入れなきゃいけなかった理由を聞いてみたい。Ten thousand one hundred and forty-six presses, 27.4 per cent of the thread's agree. A hundred and eighty-two replies.
Read the first line again. It does not say tattoos are good or bad. It says we do not hire them.
And the last line says the writer would like to hear the reason. Which means the writer has never asked.
Twenty-three people said they refuse. They hold 28.4 per cent of the vote
So I counted that directly.
Comments in which the writer says they personally refuse — I do not hire them, we turn them away, they do not pass the check — come to 23, two per cent of the thread. Those 23 carry 10,496 agree presses: 28.4 per cent of the whole vote.
Twenty-three comments out of 1,123 hold more than a quarter of everything the thread agreed with.
They are someone in human resources, someone renting out property, someone describing venues that refuse entry, someone who asked a clinic why it turns the work down.
Not one of the twenty-three says the reason was ever given to the person refused.
A school sports day
Here is the clearest comment in the thread. Sixth by agree, 1,180 presses.
At a primary school sports day there were two parents tattooed solid from the neck to the arms, and because other children were frightened someone brought it to the PTA to ask whether anything could be done. It being an ordinary state primary, the chair answered that tattoos are now taken as part of dressing up and there is nothing we can say to an individual about it — while adding that children really are frightened, so at events full of children we would hope people think about the occasion. But that answer was given in front of the handful of people at the PTA meeting. It was never passed on to the parents. Get a tattoo if you like, but you really do know that Japan does not read this the way other countries do. What is the point of showing it off to children. At least think about the occasion.
小学校の運動会で、首から腕までびっしりtattooの両親がいて、他の子が怖がっていたのでなんとかならないかとPTAに相談が入った。
いうて普通の公立小なので、昨今はオシャレの一部として認識されているのでこちらから個別で何か言えることはないと解答しつつも、そういう子供がいるのも事実なので、子供が集まる行事に参加する時はTPOを考えてもらえればと思う。。と会長さんが解答していましたが、それPTA会議の何人かの前だけ。
それを保護者にむけて発信することもなく。
タトゥーは好きにすればいいけど、日本は外国の認識とは違うのくらい本当はわかってるだろ。
子供に見せびらかしてどうするん。
せめてTPOくらいは考えよっか。A complaint was made. A meeting was held. An answer was given.
The answer was spoken in front of a handful of people and never passed on to the family it was about.
That family presumably still does not know a complaint was ever made.
What the thread was talking about
Comments naming somewhere you cannot go — hot springs, public baths, swimming pools, gyms — come to 116, 10.3 per cent, carrying 12,269 presses, 33.1 per cent of the vote.
Comments about hiring, interviews and the workplace come to 46, 4.1 per cent, carrying 11,593 presses, 31.3 per cent.
Comments that name the country itself — in Japan, Japanese society, this is Japan — come to 94, 8.4 per cent, carrying 15,016 presses, 40.6 per cent.
Comments about children, imitation and admiration come to 117, 10.4 per cent, carrying 15,076 presses, 40.7 per cent.
Comments about celebrities and show business come to 185, 16.5 per cent, carrying 15,193 presses, 41.0 per cent.
Comments touching on organised crime, intimidation or being frightened come to 128, 11.4 per cent, carrying 9,590 presses, 25.9 per cent.
Comments about regret, removal or laser work come to 42, 3.7 per cent, carrying 1,097 presses, 3.0 per cent. Comments about the body — blood donation, MRI scans, insurance, hepatitis — come to 33, 2.9 per cent, carrying 1,415 presses, 3.8 per cent.
And comments that mention the man himself — his name, his group, his wife, this person, he — come to 86, 7.7 per cent, carrying 2,466 presses, 6.7 per cent of the vote.
Nine tenths of this thread is not about him. It is about tattoos.
What the four headline phrases are actually worth here
The headline was assembled from the accepting replies on Instagram: too much fuss, personal freedom, a fashion item, he is a celebrity.
I counted what each of those is worth inside the comment thread.
- The phrase for making too much fuss — 66 comments, 5.9 per cent, 239 presses, 0.6 per cent of the vote
- The exact phrase for personal freedom — 57 comments, 5.1 per cent, 1,922 presses, 5.2 per cent
- The form he is a celebrity, so — 44 comments, 3.9 per cent, 762 presses, 2.1 per cent
- The word fashion — 173 comments, 15.4 per cent, 8,041 presses, 21.7 per cent
Only the last is large, and reading them shows why. They are arguments against the word. The fourth-placed comment in the thread asks why, if this is fashion, a stick-on design would not do.
Comments touching on being behind the times, old values, these days, the Showa era come to 135, 12.0 per cent, carrying 2,168 presses, 5.9 per cent.
The words the headline chose do not hold the vote in the thread below it.
Freedom is written 156 times, and four times in ten it turns around mid-comment
Comments using a word for freedom, or for doing as you please, come to 156, 13.9 per cent, carrying 4,828 presses, 13.0 per cent of the vote.
Of those, 60 — 38.5 per cent — turn, inside the same comment, towards dislike, wariness or refusal.
The shape is: the freedom to get one, set beside the freedom to dislike it. The comment shared from this site's account is exactly that shape. Thirteenth by agree, 541 presses.
I am sure there are many views on this, but getting a tattoo is a matter of personal freedom. I think that is quite right. But feeling awkward about it, or disliking it, when you see one is also personal freedom, surely. Dismissing that as an old-fashioned attitude is, in the end, just pressing your own values on someone else. It is also fairly well known that in Japan a tattoo can bring certain disadvantages. Choosing it anyway, knowing that, is the person's own decision. But having the freedom to get one does not mean you can require the people around you to receive it warmly. There is a freedom to get one, and a freedom not to like it. Neither side forces its values on the other. Surely that is what diversity actually is.
色々ご意見はあるとは思いますが
タトゥーを入れるのは個人の自由。それはその通りだと思います。
でも、それを見て「苦手だ」「嫌だ」と感じるのも個人の自由でしょう。「そんな考えは古い」と切り捨てるのは、結局、自分の価値観を相手に押し付けているだけではないでしょうか。
日本では、タトゥーを入れることで一定の不利益が生じる場合があることも、ある程度知られています。それを承知した上で入れるのも本人の選択です。
入れる自由があるからといって、周囲に好意的に受け止めることまで求めるのは違うと思います。
入れる自由もあれば、好きではないと思う自由もある。お互いの価値観を無理に押し付けない。それこそ多様性ではないでしょうか。Five hundred and forty-one agree, 19 that-explains-it, 42 hmm.
In the top thirty, one comment says it holds no prejudice
I read the top thirty comments by hand. Exactly one says the writer has no prejudice against tattoos and finds them attractive. It is 22nd by agree, 200 presses.
It opens by saying the writer holds no prejudice at all, and understands marking a design or a word on your own body as principle or self-expression — attractive, even. Then it runs on for six more lines. Plenty of people dislike them and will not accept them, and shouting for understanding and rights will not change that. Work will usually count against you, people will hold it against you, pools and hot springs will restrict you. You have to go in with your eyes open and accept it.
It opens with no prejudice and it closes with accept the cost.
That is the most accepting comment in the top thirty of this thread.
Comments using a word for resolve, own responsibility, knowing full well or thinking it through come to 61, 5.4 per cent, carrying 763 presses, 2.1 per cent of the vote. Small in both. This thread is not lecturing the people who get tattoos.
The largest number in the thread belongs to "keep it covered"
This is the biggest figure the count produced.
Comments touching on hiding it, not showing it, not flaunting it, exposing it, being in front of others come to 84, 7.5 per cent — and they carry 15,476 agree presses, 41.8 per cent of the vote.
That is larger than any other subject counted here: larger than the hot springs and pools (33.1 per cent), larger than hiring (31.3 per cent), larger than children (40.7 per cent).
The thread is not saying do not get one. It is saying do not let us see it.
Even the top comment ends up there: in awkward places, it says, you cover it with a sleeve.
Ninety-six per cent of these comments were never replied to
The thread carries 454 replies. Of those, 182 — 40.1 per cent — hang under the single top comment, and 301 — 66.3 per cent — under the top five.
Of the 1,123 comments, 1,084 — 96.5 per cent — have no reply at all.
They were written. They were not answered.
Japanese has two words for the same thing
This is the part of the thread hardest to see from outside Japan.
Japanese carries two words here. Tatū, the English loanword, and irezumi (also read shisei), the native word. They name the same object. But the first belongs to a conversation about fashion, and the second to a conversation about organised crime.
So I counted which word each comment reached for.
- Only the loanword — 423 comments, 37.7 per cent, 31.5 per cent of the vote
- Only the native word — 165 comments, 14.7 per cent, 31.8 per cent of the vote
- Both — 129 comments, 11.5 per cent, 26.8 per cent of the vote
- Neither — 406 comments, 36.2 per cent, 9.8 per cent of the vote
The loanword is more than twice as common by comment count, and yet the vote splits almost evenly in three.
The second-placed comment tells a story about a relative who was shown a tattoo during a debt collection, and closes by saying an ordinary person cannot tell the two words apart. It holds 5,484 presses.
The headline uses the loanword. The two loudest comments beneath it both use the native one.
Both flat statements got pushed back
The comment with the most hmm presses in the thread is the same comment that has the most agree presses. Four hundred and ninety-eight of them. The most pressed and the most pushed back are one and the same.
The steepest ratio in the thread belongs to a comment saying a tattoo is only a nice picture, and that the people who feel disgust are the ones who ought to adjust — 5 agree against 66 hmm, 13.2 times, 222nd by agree.
Next comes this one.
If you live seriously, in a decent world, you will certainly never arrive at the idea of putting ink into your body.
真面目に、真っ当な世界に生きていれば「身体に入れ墨を入れる」って発想には確実にならないね。Four agree against 49 hmm, 12.2 times, 302nd by agree.
Get over it was pushed back. No decent person would was pushed back too.
What held the vote was everything in between — we do not hire, we turn them away, please keep it covered, get one if you accept the cost.
What I have not checked
I have not verified whether the mark on his arm is ink at all. The article rests on a photograph and on the replies beneath it, and several comments in the thread say you cannot tell from a picture.
I have also not checked, against any statistics, how hiring or entry policies in Japan actually work. What this note counted is what the thread wrote.
Counted but not quoted
Comments containing a word of abuse — idiot, fool, trash, bottom-feeder, stupid, contempt — come to 50, 4.5 per cent, carrying 873 presses, 2.4 per cent of the vote.
Comments mocking someone's appearance come to 79, 7.0 per cent, carrying 552 presses, 1.5 per cent.
Comments touching on foreigners, tourists or inbound visitors come to 16, 1.4 per cent, carrying 1,148 presses, 3.1 per cent.
This site counts comments that mock appearance, and comments that turn on foreigners, and does not reproduce them.
Checking my expectation against the count
The truth is never said to your face. That was my expectation.
Comments that say so outright — nobody says this to your face, I do not put it into words — come to one in 1,123. It has zero agree presses.
Widen it to every comment touching on not saying it, not being able to say it, real feelings against stated ones, and it is still only 20 — 1.8 per cent, 441 presses, 1.2 per cent of the vote.
This thread does not write that it says nothing.
It writes that it does not hire. And that carries 28.4 per cent of the vote.
So they smile and say they like it. That shape turned up too, in sixth place: a complaint made, a meeting held, an answer given, and the parents never told.
There is no going back. Comments about regret and removal come to 42, 3.7 per cent, 3.0 per cent of the vote. It is a small subject in this thread.
Objecting gets called old-fashioned. Comments touching on being behind the times come to 135, 12.0 per cent — but they carry 5.9 per cent of the vote. And the phrase that became the headline, making too much fuss, carries 0.6 per cent.
The comment shared from this site's account is 13th by agree, with 541 presses, 19 that-explains-it and 42 hmm — the one saying there is a freedom to get a tattoo and a freedom not to like it.
What this thread was really saying
The headline said people make too much fuss.
I read all 1,123 comments, and this thread is not making a fuss.
The loudest comment is from someone who hires staff and does not hire them. The second is about a relative frightened during a debt collection. The sixth is about a complaint that never reached the family it concerned.
Twenty-three people — two per cent — said they personally turn such people away. Those twenty-three hold 28.4 per cent of the vote.
What this Japanese comment thread is discussing is not approval or disapproval. It is procedure.
We do not hire. We refuse entry. We change queues. We keep our distance. And we do not tell you why.
The phrase the headline chose carries 0.6 per cent of the vote in the thread beneath it.
On the name
This man performs in public under a published stage name, and the article concerns a photograph he published himself, so I have written it as reported.
This site withholds names only for private individuals caught up in crimes and accidents.
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