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 ...

She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell ... hours later go to Shinto shrines to celebrate the New Year. During other seasons, Japanese flock to Buddhist ...

Please no messages or comments. Thank you.” Several locals praised Perez’s “courage” for apologising for the shrine stunt. One Japanese social media user commented: “We welcome ...

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 ...

Japan's Ishiba Sends Offering to Yasukuni Shrine, Angering S.Korea, China TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on ...