local police told CNN a 61-year-old Austrian man was arrested for having sex on the grounds of a shrine in Kesennuma — a small coastal town about 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Tokyo ...

In western Japan, this prefecture’s verdant natural spaces are the perfect destination for bringing together body, mind, and ...

The Meiji Jingu shrine, in Tokyo, honours the Emperor Meiji and ... In a bid to curb over-tourism, a small town near Mount Fuji erected a barrier to block a view of the sacred mountain after ...

Police said the man allegedly defaced the pillar of a shrine gate in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Tuesday ... tourist-related incidents to make headlines as Japan experiences record visitor numbers.

Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested in Japan for ...