A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of vandalizing the wooden torii gate of one of ... meaning "death" in two places on a stone wall of the Yasukuni shrine ...

He expressed relief that his family was unharmed but was shocked by the damage to the shrine’s stone torii gate and the roof of a “chozuya” purification fountain. The shrine was also damaged ...

The Shinto gate made with whitish rocks comes ... to traffic since June due to falling rocks. The torii awaits after walking up a 270-step stone stairway. When seen from the hongu building ...

He told me there were two people from Oregon roaming around the northeast with what sounded like an impossible mission: they were in possession of what appeared to be parts of Torii gates that had ...

The stone-paved path leading to Mt. Haguro’s summit stretches before us shortly after we pass the torii gate at the base of the mountain. Surrounded by towering aged cedars and echoes of ...