Tokyo police arrested a 65-year-old American man Wednesday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s ...

It's not clear if he remains in custody or has been released. Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, and popular tourist destination, that "commemorate(s) the virtue of Emperor Meiji and ...

Steve Lee Hayes was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police ... CNN reported. The Meiji shrine is a Shinto shrine that “was established in 1920, to ...

It's not clear whether he remains in custody. Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine and popular tourist destination in Tokyo that "commemorate(s) the virtue of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken who took ...

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

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 ...

He visited one of Tokyo’s most famous shrines, Meiji Jingu, and allegedly defaced one of its gate’s pillars as a prank by using his fingernails to scratch the surface, reported AFP.

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 ...