An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo.

Suspect Steve Lee Hayes, 65, allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of one of the shrine's torii gates.

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

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as ...

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

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

A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of vandalizing the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's ...

A 65-year-old US citizen has been detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of Tokyo's Meiji ...

'Yatte Minahare' is a rallying call from Shinjiro Torii to embrace the unknown, question the status quo, take on new ...

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 ...

Inspired by the ancient Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, the House of Suntory’s whisky blenders believe that whisky, like people, becomes more beautiful and more refined as it ages. Ever since 1923, ...