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 ...

A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of vandalizing the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's most frequently visited shrines, Meiji Jingu. Officers arrested the ...

It was a phone call from an acquaintance in Tokyo who often travels to Oregon ... they were in possession of what appeared to be parts of Torii gates that had washed up in their state in 2013 ...

The traditional heartland showcases a different side of spiritual Japan, in a way that completements time well spent in Tokyo. The region offers an abundance of temples, shrines and torii gates to ...