The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward ...

But now, Kanonji city has something new to offer: the “torii gate in the sky” of the “hongu” main building of Takayajinja shrine that sits atop 404-meter-high Mount Inazumiyama.

The shrine complex dates back to the eighth century, but it's not the star of the show. Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed torii gate serenely resting ... seen only for now,” said another. The gate, part of Itsukushimajinja shrine, is a World Heritage Site and a sought ...

Takahashi Toshimi, a leader of the Okuki fishing community, donated the Torii gate to a local shrine. Okuki is a small community of about 800 residents. At the tip of its pier stands a shrine that ...

There are religions that put their believers' faith to the test with harsh trials. On a mountain in Japan, that test is not ...

The main hall of the lower shrine as it stands today was completed in 1843 by the renowned master carpenter Ōkubo Kanzaemon, who also constructed the imperial envoy gate of Eiheiji, the head ...

A 65-year-old American tourist, identified as Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested in Tokyo for allegedly defacing a torii gate at the historic Meiji Shrine. The arrest, made on Wednesday, followed an ...