Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police.

An American tourist who arrived in Japan with his family on Monday might be staying in the country for a lot longer than he ...

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

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 ...

With onsen hot springs, ancient shrines and great forests of broadleaf and conifer trees that conceal galloping waterfalls, ...

In Shohei Ohtani's hometown in Japan, now colored Dodger blue for the World Series, a superfan's shrine covers the baseball ...

Japan may be less well known for cycling ... up a country road outside the city of Imari, past small houses and outbuildings, to a shrine called Dake. Liew explained that it was dedicated to ...

Expectations are growing that Ishiba might become the shortest-serving prime minister in Japan's postwar history. The current record-holder is Naruhiko Higashikuni, who held the position for just 54 ...