A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.

TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan and accused of carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in ...

or practice peace at the Meiji Shrine. Accessible via Harajuku Station Harajuku has made it into the cultural lexicon thanks to Gwen Stefani's years-long musical ode to Tokyo's fashionable girls.

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

An American tourist was arrested for vandalism at a historic shrine in Tokyo a day after arriving in the country on vacation ...

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man used his fingernails to carve five letters into the pillar of a torii gate at the popular tourist attraction.

TOKYO — Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in ...

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...