Princess Yuriko became the sister-in-law of Japan's World War II-era Emperor Hirohito when she married his brother Prince ...

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

Princess Yuriko of Japan, the Imperial Family’s eldest member, died at 101 years old on Nov. 15 at a Tokyo hospital. Her ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

Japan is seeing a record boom in tourism, but one recent visitor travelled more than the circumference of the earth to get ...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following ...

Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday.

American tourist Steve Hayes was arrested on Wednesday ‘on suspicion of damaging property’ at the Meiji Jingu shrine ...

Princess Yuriko of Japan, the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family, died ...

An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo.