A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's ...

A panel of experts working for cultural preservation criticized the developers' new plan to cut fewer trees to redevelop Tokyo’s leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien district as just focusing on the number.

(Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 65-year-old American male for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo earlier this week by using his ...

Trees in Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien area have started to be cut down to make way for a redevelopment project. If all goes ...

A group of residents is suing Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward over a controversial redevelopment project in the Meiji Jingu Gaien district. The plaintiffs are demanding the revocation of a permit issued by ...

Real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan and others on Monday started cutting down trees as part of their redevelopment plan for the Meiji Jingu Gaien area in central Tokyo. Mitsui submitted a revised ...

Hirohito (1901-1989), grandson of Emperor Meiji, is posthumously ... exhibition that is running at the museum through Aug. 31. Admission is free. Ise Jingu is dedicated to the sun goddess ...

A zelkova tree among those that have begun to be cut down in the Meiji Jingu Gaien area is seen in the background amid protesters raising their voices against the decision, in Tokyo's Shinjuku ...