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 ...

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

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 ...

Tokyo's Meiji Shrine enshrines Emperor Meiji, who ruled from 1868 until 1912 and oversaw Japan's modernization drive, and his wife, Empress Shoken. It is one of the country's prime destinations ...

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