As there is no record of him having had a specialist painting teacher, he is believed to have taught himself artistic technique by walking around to study artworks at Kyoto temples and shrines.

Fresh, hygienic, and practically inexpensive, Bangkok’s bustling street food scene is characterised by roadside food carts ... to some of the country’s most revered and popular temples, shrines, ...

Fresh, hygienic, and practically inexpensive, Bangkok’s bustling street food scene is characterised by roadside food carts ... to some of the country’s most revered and popular temples, shrines, ...

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 ...

A kemari ancient football festival was held at Tanzan Shinto shrine in the city of Sakurai ... a festival is held in autumn and spring. Note: In Japanese history, the Asuka period is from 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, the latest example of bad behavior by visitors ...