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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.

People pass through the entrance gate to the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Thursday ... his family members' names" while visiting the Shinto shrine around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.

American man Steve Hayes, 65, was arrested after allegedly defacing the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. The Meiji Jingu shrine, in Tokyo, honours the Emperor Meiji and his wife Empress Shoken An ...

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into the pillar of a torii gate of the Meiji Jingu Shrine on ...

The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward ...

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as Steve Hayes, is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters into ...

Steve Lee Hayes was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police spokesperson told ...