A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan after being accused of vandalizing a shrine. Steve Lee Hayes was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, a Tokyo Metropolitan ...

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Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a Cabinet meeting at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2024. (Mainichi) Ishiba and his Cabinet ministers did not visit the Shinto shrine during its ...

Ishiba has no plans to visit the Shinto shrine during the three-day festival, according to people familiar with the matter. Neighboring countries regard the shrine as a symbol of Japan's past ...

They are members of a suprapartisan group promoting visits to the Shinto shrine in the Kudankita district in the Japanese capital's Chiyoda Ward. Yasukuni Shrine is regarded as a symbol of Japan's ...

In the years since, though, the Nagasaki Prefecture Shinto ... Japan’s largest and most famous shrines have admission gates (i.e. gates where a staff member sells tickets or otherwise regulates entry) ...

Instead, Ishiba plans to make a ritual "masakaki" tree offering to the Shinto shrine ... Wednesday. The shrine is regarded by neighboring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism because ...