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

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

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

According to public broadcaster NHK, five letters – believed to be the tourist’s family name – were allegedly etched into a gate pillar at Tokyo’s Meiji ... listed temple in the historic ...

An American man has been arrested for defacing the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo, as Japan struggles with heavy tourist numbers and misbehaving visitors. Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man ...

The yellow leaves of ginkgo trees are seen at their peak of radiance, at the Meiji Jingu Gaien area in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama) =Click/tap photo for more images.

Nearly 1,000 trees are at risk of being felled in a rare oasis of greenery in central Tokyo to make way for redevelopment ... The leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien area so popular with Tokyoites stands ...

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 ...

Visitors to Kyu Furukawa Gardens in Tokyo can take pictures of famed roses ... a symbol of Japan’s Westernization during the Meiji Era (1868-1912). The repair work will continue until around ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...