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

Police says they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for "death" was found graffitied on two spots of a ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man used his fingernails to carve five letters into the pillar of a torii gate at the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for "death" was found ...

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

The antics of tourists in places of religious worship never cease to amaze. In Japan, there's much talk about an American ...

The antics of tourists in places of religious worship never cease to amaze. In Japan, there's much talk about an American ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba didn't visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering of "masakaki" evergreen twigs.

Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, has often been at the center of an ongoing international controversy because 14 Class-A war criminals from World War II are enshrined there. In ...

TOKYO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view ...

No Japanese premier has visited the Yasukuni shrine since 2013 and Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida would also regularly send offerings for its biannual spring and autumn festivals.