Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo ...

The Japanese word ‘torii’ translates into a symbolic gateway that marks the entrance to the sacred precincts of a Shintō ...

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a torii gate of Meiji ...

A Chilean tourist sparked outrage by doing pull-ups on a sacred shrine gate in Japan. Video shows fitness influencer Maria del Mar Perez Banus using the holy red 'torii' gate as a pull-up bar at the ...

With higher-than-usual cases being reported, the Japanese media has even coined a term for it, meiwaku gaikokujin, which translates as “nuisance foreigner," and the latest case involves a tourist who ...

A foreign tourist has apologised after incurring the wrath of Japanese social media users for posting a video online in which she performed pull-ups on a sacred “torii” gate at a Shinto shrine ...

Torii gates are traditionally found at the entrance ... “I want to apologize for my actions in Japan. I didn’t mean to be rude. I’m really sorry for what I did without thinking.

Ippei Torii has literally risked his life to rescue non-Japanese workers from oppressive labor conditions over his long career as a union official. Torii, 66, who chairs the nonprofit group ...

Its founder, Shinjiro Torii, pioneered the category outside Osaka in 1923 ... and Hakashu in the forested foothills of the ...

When the vast majority of Japanese people never heard of whisky, Suntory’s founder Shinjiro Torii began his endeavor of producing high-quality whisky in 1923. Since then, he developed and ...