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

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

Suspect Steve Lee Hayes, 65, allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of one of the shrine's torii gates.

An American tourist was arrested for vandalism at a historic shrine in Tokyo a day after arriving in the country on vacation ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police allege the man used his fingernails to carve five letters into the pillar of a torii gate at the popular tourist attraction.

Tokyo police arrested an American tourist accused of defacing one of the city’s holiest shrines. Steve Lee Hayes, 65 was ...

The arrest of an American tourist for defacing a revered Tokyo shrine has highlighted a growing challenge for Japan, a ...

A 65-year-old American is suspected of carving alphabetical characters into the pillar of a torii gate of the Meiji Jingu ...

Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo ...

The Japanese word ‘torii’ translates into a symbolic gateway that marks the entrance to the sacred precincts of a Shintō ...

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.