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 ...

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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 Chilean woman has faced criticism after posting a video on Instagram showing her hanging from a torii shrine gate and doing pullups in sync with music during a visit to Japan. The woman ...

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.

Torii, although at first glance they appear to be simple structures, are a sacred gate or traditional arch ... "I want to apologise for my actions in Japan. I didn't mean to be rude.

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The footage depicted Perez using a Torii, a traditional gate that marks the entrance to ... significance attached to this sacred symbol in Japanese culture. The Torii serves as a boundary between ...

Torii gates are found close to religious shrines all over Japan to indicate a boundary separating the human world and the sacred. The one-legged Torii gate has significant meaning of its own ...

The shrine’s torii gate lost one of its pillars due to the nuclear blast, but, alongside some nearby trees, it still stands in the city today. In Japan, torii gates mark the entrance to a ...

PureArts has removed an Assassin's Creed Shadows figure from sale following backlash over its potentially insensitive design. The broken torii used in the figure is similar to the one-legged gate ...

Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for “death” was found graffitied on two ...