TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan and accused of carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

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The Watazumi Shrine on Japan's Tsushima Island has banned all tourist activity in light of a recent incident by foreign visitors. The Shinto shrine, which once gained great attention from fans of ...

Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe made a well-planned and well-publicized visit to the Yasukuni Shrine on Christmas Day in the United States. The Shrine gives special recognition to war ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Yasukuni Shrine -- a 20-building complex on 25 acres of land in Tokyo built 132 years ago -- honors Japan's nearly 2.5 million war dead from both civil and international wars ...

Hot on the heels of acts of disrespect by foreigners at similar sites, Japanese officials have closed the doors to Watazumi Shrine. The exact nature of the issues remain unspecified, but the quote ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past brutal militarism, on the occasion of its spring festival.

A group of Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial shrine in Tokyo Tuesday during a three-day spring festival, despite opposition from South Korea, according to local media reports. Around 70 ...