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American tourist arrested in Japan and accused of defacing shrine gate
Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property damage, Tokyo police said.
American tourist arrested for using his fingernails to damage sacred Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo
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.
Japan police arrest American tourist, 65, accused of defacing one of Tokyo’s most iconic shrines
American tourist Steve Hayes was arrested on Wednesday ‘on suspicion of damaging property’ at the Meiji Jingu shrine
Japan's latest tourism headache is American arrested for damaging Tokyo shrine
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 welcomed nearly 27 million visitors through September,
American tourist arrested in Tokyo for defacing shrine gate
A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.
Tokyo police arrest American tourist for allegedly defacing shrine gate
Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday.
American tourist, 65, arrested in Japan for allegedly defacing shrine gate
An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo.
US Tourist Arrested For Defacing Tokyo Shrine
A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine, police said Thursday, the latest example of bad behaviour by visitors flooding back to Japan post-pandemic.
American tourist detained for defacing Tokyo's Meiji Jingu shrine
A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's most visited shrines, Meiji Jingu. Officers arrested the American tourist on Thursday,
American tourist arrested for scratching family names into sacred Japanese shrine as a "prank"
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