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

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

The shrine includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders ... and he has called a snap election of Japan's Lower House of parliament. Polls indicate his ruling Liberal Democratic Party is at risk of losing ...

Dragon Quest III invites players to dive deep into Alefgard’s secrets, where the legendary Sword of Kings and Ortega’s ...

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

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 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.

Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for “death” was found graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, after ...

Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine’s name was found to be defaced with the word “toilet” spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted ...

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 ...

The shrine complex dates back to the eighth century, but it's not the star of the show. Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long ...