Steve Hayes reportedly used his fingernails to scratch letters in a traditional wooden gate at the temple complex.

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

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

while Japanese employs three different scripts: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Learning these scripts demands significant time and effort, as opposed to languages that use the Latin alphabet, which ...

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

The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

Timothy O'Neill is an expert calligrapher whose work can be found in collections worldwide. His latest book, The Irish Art of ...

Since Japanese kanji are far more alien (not to mention complicated) than the Roman alphabet I’m used to, I had to use Lens’s ...

Monk Botanical Gardens in Wausau is like that cool, eccentric uncle who always has something new and exciting to show you. It ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

If you're unsure how to navigate the various types of Japanese restaurants, from ramen shops to curry shops, this guide will ...