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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.
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 Busted for Gross Desecration of Tokyo Shrine
An American visiting Japan with his family has been arrested on suspicion of vandalism after allegedly desecrating Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Shrine. According to Reuters, the 65-year-old (identified as Steve Lee Hayes) clawed five letters representing family names into a pillar of the Torii gates with his fingernails.
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.
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
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.
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