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 ...
FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture—The construction of a gate at the fifth station ... stop crowds and unsafe climbing of Japan's highest peak. This entrance, which is on the Yoshida ...
A 65-year-old U.S. citizen named Steven Lee Hayes on Nov. 14 was accused of defacing the shrine's entry gate. Japanese authorities accused Hayes of using his fingernails to scratch his initials in ...