Princess Yuriko became the sister-in-law of Japan's World War II-era Emperor Hirohito when she married his brother Prince ...

Princess Yuriko of Japan, the Imperial Family’s eldest member, died at 101 years old on Nov. 15 at a Tokyo hospital. Her ...

Steve Lee Hayes was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police spokesperson told ...

For Nok, the country represented the furthest he could travel in Asia without getting a plane. He arrived by ferry in the ...

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Photographer Hiro Komae got his start at The Associated as a photo editor in New York, the news ...

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.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.

TOKYO: Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan's royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday (Nov ...

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...