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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Fishermen pray to the Torii gates at the front of the shrine from ... To get the background to the story, I flew to Portland and visited the Japanese garden. At the time, officials there were ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...