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

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 ...

A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's ...

but I don’t consider this a religious activity,” Nomura said after getting her stamp and taking selfies at Sakura Jingu, a western Tokyo shrine established in 1882 as a minority Shinto sect ...

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

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.

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 ...