An American visiting Japan with his family has been arrested on suspicion of vandalism after allegedly desecrating Tokyo’s ...

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.

The Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto City is home to about 250 cherry trees. The double-flowered weeping variety are now in full bloom. The area was previously home to a villa of the once-powerful ...

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

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

Cherry blossoms began blooming in the Tokyo area on March 14 ... The announcement was based on cherry blossoms at Yasukuni Shrine in the capital’s Chiyoda Ward. At 2 p.m., officials of the ...

Spring is in the air in many parts of Japan, with reports of sakura starting to bloom bringing cheer to the hearts of those tired of winter. The Tokyo District ... at Yasukuni Shrine in the ...

A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine, police said Thursday ... one of the gate's pillars as a prank at Meiji Jingu ...

Carvings resembling Chinese characters, along with scratches, have also been found on a torii gate at Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, investigative sources said the same day.

You wouldn’t know it by walking around Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo. Every day thousands of people pass under its torii gates, past the barrels of artisan sake fermenting in the sun, up to the ...

Police have arrested a 65-year-old American man for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo earlier this week by using his fingernails to scratch letters in a torii gate there. Steve Hayes, who ...

(Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo earlier this week by using his ...