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VANDALISM

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2019
Vandalism suspected after 'Eye of Shinjuku' artwork found damaged
A large eye-shaped piece of artwork that served as a popular meeting spot near the west exit of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo has been vandalized, police said Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2018
Macron mulls state of emergency after worst unrest in decades, Arc de Triomphe vandalism
President Emmanuel Macron considered declaring a state of emergency as he met security chiefs on Sunday seeking a way out of nationwide protests after rioters turned central Paris into a battle zone and vandalized the Arc de Triomphe monument.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jul 26, 2018
Man vandalizes Trump's Hollywood sidewalk star with a pickax, is arrested
A man with a pickax vandalized U.S. President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early on Wednesday and later surrendered to police, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2018
Anti-Korean graffiti found in Japanese city following cancellation of alleged hate speech event
Dozens of places in Kawasaki are marred by slurs directed at ethnic Korean residents just days after protesters blocked an alleged hate speech event.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2018
Tourists deface iconic bamboo plants in Kyoto's Arashiyama district
At least 100 bamboo plants in Kyoto's Arashiyama district have been vandalized by tourists, who apparently engraved their names and initials, a company managing the iconic groves of the popular tourist spot said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2018
Tokyo Metro trains vandalized for third time in seven days
In the early hours of Thursday, Tokyo Metro Co. discovered one of its trains had been vandalized overnight with graffiti while parked near Nakano Station, the subway operator said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2017
Security camera footage leads police to arrest woman over graffiti at Nagano temple
Police arrested a woman on Tuesday for alleged vandalism at a building in the historically important Zenkoji Temple complex in Nagano Prefecture, while also looking into her possible connection with other graffiti found there.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 9, 2017
Graffiti found at Nagano's historic Zenkoji Temple
Police have launched an investigation into vandalism following the discovery of graffiti at Zenkoji Temple in the city of Nagano. Part of the temple is designated as a national treasure.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2017
Four teens arrested over vandalism at site of Okinawa wartime mass suicide
Four teens have been arrested on suspicion of vandalism at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture where civilians were forced to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II, police have said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2017
Historic Taipei shrine dating back to Japanese colonial era vandalized
A historic shrine in Taipei dating back to the Japanese colonial period has been vandalized, local media reported Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2017
Statue of Japanese civil engineer in southern Taiwan park found beheaded
A statue commemorating a Japanese civil engineer in southern Taiwan who contributed to Taiwan's development was found decapitated Sunday, local media reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 2, 2017
Temple squirter strikes again at UNESCO sites in Kyoto, Nara
Shimogamo Shrine and Kinpusenji Temple, two UNESCO World Heritage sites in west Japan, become the latest targets of vandals who appear bent on defacing such sites with a liquid.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2016
Two temples, one shrine in Nara vandalized with liquid
Todaiji, one of the most prestigious Buddhist temples in Japan, and other religious sites in Nara Prefecture have been vandalized with some type of liquid.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 1, 2015
Police to arrest New York man over vandalism at Japan shrines
Police are set to arrest a Japanese man living in New York on suspicion of vandalizing a Chiba shrine with an oily liquid, police sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2015
Mysterious temple oil squirter possibly captured on camera
Police trying to understand a bizarre sequence of vandalism at dozens of religious sites involving a substance resembling cooking oil said Tuesday that a surveillance camera at a temple had caught images of a man behaving oddly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2015
Spate of vandalization hits Kyoto, Nara World Heritage sites
World Heritage sites and temples in the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, home to many of Japanu2019s most historic cultural properties, are found to have been vandalized.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2014
Book vandalized at Fukuoka library over sex slave issue
A book written by a man who provided controversial accounts about wartime "comfort women" was vandalized last month at a library in the city of Fukuoka, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2014
Parked cars in Saitama turning up scratched
The Kasukabe Police Station in Saitama Prefecture has found that more than 70 cars parked in lots or on the streets have had their hoods and doors scratched in apparent acts of vandalism over the past four days.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Man nabbed for illegally entering bookshop hit by Anne Frank vandalism
Police have arrested a Tokyo man for putting up a poster without permission inside a bookstore where copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank has earlier been vandalized, investigative sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Defacing of Anne Frank diaries stirs public
The news that hundreds of copies of Anne Franku2019s u201cA Diary of a Young Girlu201d and books about her had been vandalized in libraries across Tokyo still spur swidespread concern, with people scrambling to help with generous donations.

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