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

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

A foreign tourist has apologised after incurring the wrath of Japanese social media users for posting a video online in which she performed pull-ups on a sacred “torii” gate at a Shinto shrine ...

The shrine is famous for its thousands of red torii ... oldest Buddhist temples in Japan, dating back to the 7th century. It ...

A Chilean woman has faced criticism after posting a video on Instagram showing her hanging from a torii shrine gate and doing pullups in sync with music during a visit to Japan. The woman ...

The sisters from Chile shared a video to the account ‘mmgymsisters’ of Maria del Mar Perez Banus performing pull-ups on the red bars of a torii gate in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to the music of the ...

With higher-than-usual cases being reported, the Japanese media has even coined a term for it, meiwaku gaikokujin, which translates as “nuisance foreigner," and the latest case involves a tourist who ...