Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police.

An American tourist was arrested after he allegedly used his fingernails to carve five letters into a gate at the Meiji Jingu ...

A number of small local restaurants, of the kind that we delight in, had signs on the door saying ‘Please speak Japanese in ...

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

Memphis Grizzlies guard Yuki Kawamura and Los Angeles Lakers forward Rui Hachimura are representing Japanese basketball in ...

Written by Pinchas Schon, on behalf of the Mirrer Yeshiva Association in New York, and addressed to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, rav in Cincinnati and head of the Agudas Harabonim, it pleads for his assistan ...

A UN report says Russia is carrying out systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war. One survivor tells NHK about his ...

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as ...

An unprecedented number of tourists are flocking to Japan after the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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A team of U.S. employees at Hachette wrote an open letter to management in protest over a new conservative book imprint ...

Grant Ujifusa helped persuade President Ronald Reagan to support reparations for Japanese Americans interned at camps like ...