Japanese media reports said graffiti reading “toilet” in Chinese, written with what appeared to be black markers, was found Monday morning on a stone pillar near the shrine’s arch.

Japanese media reports said graffiti reading “toilet” in Chinese, written with what appeared to be black markers, was found on Monday morning on a stone pillar near the shrine’s arch.

Two tourists have been accused of disrespecting Japanese culture after filming gymnastics moves at a sacred shrine in Hokkaido ... started constructing a large black screen on a stretch of ...

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SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

In August, Chinese characters and some letters from the Latin alphabet were also written on the shrine with a black felt-tip pen, police said. Japan welcomed a record 17.78 million foreign ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition ... naked men with just white loincloth around ...