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.

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

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

Now that summer has loosened its torrid grip, a trip to this outdoor museum in the western Tokyo suburbs is a perfect way to ...

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

The Thomas Balch Library on Tuesday displayed a new art collection called “Echoes of the East: Selections from the Asian Art Collection of Morven Park.” ...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended the Bakufu period. A bad economy and the 1853 visit by Commodore Perry’s “Black Ships,” ...

People’s preferences for Japanese sweet potatoes, now in season, have shifted from fluffy textures to sweeter, creamier varieties.

A mountain man loses his connection to nature in this strange but stunning portrait of modernity set in the shadow of the ...

Shimizu Corp., the main contractor for the restoration of Shuri Castle in Naha, has begun offering people a peek into the restoration work through a 3D virtual tour, five years after the castle was ...