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 ...

Is the Japan tourism bubble at risk of bursting? - SPECIAL REPORT: The number of people visiting Japan hit record levels in ...

What a gorgeous red torii gate at the edge of the ocean cliff ... Suddenly, I heard a deep thud, like someone had pounded a huge Japanese drum, and with it, the earth under my feet and the ...

Ken Johnson has been on a decade-long journey to find acceptance since his boy Torii Johnson's death during the Lindt cafe ...

Getty Images The Kyoto Torii gates are one of Japan's best known tourist sites Japan has largely remained closed since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a move that has hit the tourism industry hard.

His father, Ken, was travelling around Japan and came across a beautiful island with a torii gate, used by the Japanese to symbolically mark the transition of the mundane to the sacred. “I had the ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½ ... the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...