Graffiti or "rakugaki" in Japanese is the term for any basic public markings, whether big or small. It is usually associated with gangs, which were done mainly to “mark their territories.” It has also ...

TOKYO – A centuries-old Buddhist temple in Japan was spray-painted with graffiti early Sunday, days after temple officials pulled out of the upcoming Olympic torch relay because they sympathize with ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are searching for suspects in the spray-painting of the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country's war dead, in an apparent protest against the ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - It wasn't a security alert that made Japan's railway authorities halt the morning run of a bullet train recently and inconvenience about 500 commuters, but the word "Hack" ...

The Japanese seem to have thought that the students were alone in the stupidity and somehow made Japan look bad internationally. No such thing. Their graffiti definitely won't look any worse than the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese graffiti artist "281 Antinuke" says his latest street art - politically-charged stickers plastered around central Tokyo - takes aim at U.S. President Donald Trump. Amid the ...

TOKYO – A Tokyo shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism reported on Aug 19 a second case of graffiti in three months. The Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo honours 2.5 million mostly Japanese killed ...

Outrage has swept across Japan after footage emerged on social media appearing to show a Chinese man urinating and spray-painting the word “toilet” on a pillar at Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine ...

Japanese police are searching for the suspects who spray-painted the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country's war dead, in an apparent protest against the release of treated ...

Workers prepare to remove a graffiti on Yasukuni Shrine's stone pillar, covered under a blue sheet in Tokyo on June 1, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are searching for the ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails The red graffiti on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine was discovered early ...