Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

6 at the Meiji Jingu Museum of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo as part of an exhibition ... including kimono from the Momoyama Period (late 16th century). Restorers at Sengiren are paying close attention ...

Tokyo police arrested a 65-year-old American man Wednesday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s ...

An American man has been arrested for defacing the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo, as Japan struggles with heavy tourist numbers and misbehaving visitors. Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man ...

A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine ... gate’s pillars as a prank at Meiji Jingu, one of the capital ...

Steve Lee Hayes has reportedly admitted to writing “his family member’s names” on the pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo on Tuesday, the Japan Times ...

The Japan Times reported that the letters were carved into a wooden pillar of a traditional entrance, known as a torii gate, at the Meiji Shrine. Get top local stories in San Diego delivered to ...