A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

Where sky meets sea, Japan's floating shrine gate beckons: a red giant that transforms with the tides on this sacred island ...

In 1979, artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed a monumental project meant for New York City’s Central Park, known as The Gates. Comprised of several thousand steel structures (or ...

and a Chilean woman was filmed doing pull-ups on a shrine’s “torii” gate. This growing backlash over these misdeeds is not only coming from the Japanese public but also from long-term ...

The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of the 65-year-old American on Nov 13 on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into the pillar of a torii gate at Meiji Jingu Shrine on Nov 12.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine. The suspect, Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man used his fingernails to carve five letters into the pillar of a torii gate at the popular tourist attraction. The five letters are believed to represent ...

The Japan Times reported that the letters were carved into a wooden pillar of a traditional entrance, known as a torii gate, at the Meiji Shrine. Hayes, who is alleged to have used his fingernails ...

Tokyo police arrested a 65-year-old American man Wednesday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s ...