According to public broadcaster NHK, five letters – believed to be the tourist’s family name – were allegedly etched into a ...

Meiji Mura in Aichi Prefecture is an open-air museum that features a collection of buildings from different eras in the ...

An American tourist was arrested after he allegedly used his fingernails to carve five letters into a gate at the Meiji Jingu ...

The antics of tourists in places of religious worship never cease to amaze. In Japan, there's much talk about an American ...

An American man is arrested on suspicion of vandalizing Tokyo's Meiji Shrine:: Tokyo, Japan:: November 14, 2024:: File:: ...

A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine ... gate’s pillars as a prank at Meiji Jingu, one of the capital ...

TOKYO — Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in ...

Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, and popular tourist destination ... for a “butt selfie” in front of a famous Buddhist temple. And in 2022, a tourist who climbed the steps of the ...

To pray for good fortune in the New Year, people in Japan routinely flock to temples and shrines in the first few days of January. Tokyo's Meiji Shrine enshrines Emperor Meiji, who ruled from ...

Because of its importance, Meiji Jingu pulls in plenty of sightseers ... The star attraction here is Senso-ji, Tokyo’s oldest temple, which was first built in the 600s to house a statue of ...