TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan and accused of carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in ...

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

American tourist Steve Hayes was arrested on Wednesday ‘on suspicion of damaging property’ at the Meiji Jingu shrine ...

The country welcomed 2.93 million foreign visitors in August, followed by another 2.87 million visitors in September — well ...

Temperatures are cooling in Japan, but interest in visiting shows little signs of slowing, as autumn arrivals continue to ...

TOKYO, Japan – An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan’s struggle to cope ...

The third International Wellness Tourism Expo (iWT) will be held in Japan’s Tokyo Big Sight convention centre from 25 to 27 ...

Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.

Japan is seeing a record boom in tourism, but one recent visitor travelled more than the circumference of the earth to get ...