Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday (November 13) on suspicion of carving ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

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

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

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

Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday.

If you've ever considered visiting Japan, this might be the best year to make that dream a reality. In 2023, Conde Nast Traveler subscribers voted Japan as the ...

Tokyo’s New Year’s celebrations offer a vibrant mix of traditional and modern festivities. Alongside customary visits to Meiji Shrine for Hatsumode, where people pray for good fortune in the coming ...

Japanese food major Meiji Co. is to spend $28m building capacity for its Hello Panda snack brand in the US. It will be invested in its subsidiary Meiji America’s plant in Santa Ana, California.

The Meiji brand of Hello Panda caramel-flavoured biscuits on sale in Los Angeles, 25 November 2023. Credit: ZikG / Shutterstock.com Japanese food major Meiji Co. is to spend $28m building capacity ...

The Vancouver Island municipality was forced to drain a pond in a local park, pumping out more than 39 million litres of water over nine days, in order to remove more than 1,700 goldfish.