A 65-year-old American tourist, identified as Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested in Tokyo for allegedly defacing a torii gate at the historic Meiji Shrine. The arrest, made on Wednesday, followed an ...

Hayes is accused of “carving the alphabet with his fingernails” into the wooden pillar of Meiji shrine gate in Tokyo’s ... according to its website. Torii gates are often found at the ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original ... When entering the shrine, you'll first see the Torii, or the shrine's large archway. It's traditional to bow once entering, then again when ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed “floating” torii gate of Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site under repair, was revealed for the first time in about three and a half years.

7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine ... 14 was accused of defacing the shrine's entry gate. Japanese authorities accused ...

Takahashi Toshimi, a leader of the Okuki fishing community, donated the Torii gate to a local shrine. Okuki is a small community of about 800 residents. At the tip of its pier stands a shrine that ...

commissioned the shrine, and Ieyasu’s grandson, Iemitsu, transformed it into a grandiose complex of color and detail. Nikko Toshogu is famous for many things: A stone torii gate was shipped from ...

Grand sumo champion Yokozuna Terunofuji performs the Shiranui-style entering ceremony for the new year's dedication at the Meiji Shrine ... of defacing the shrine's entry gate.

Meiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine and located in a forested area in the heart of ... Japanese authorities accused Hayes of using his fingernails to scratch his initials in the wooden torii gate and ...