American Tourist Arrested for Defacing Shrine in Japan

Must be unwell

What a jerk.. Never thinking that this disrespectful act will not only damaging his own image only but this will also affect the other people in America.

Ignorant or arrogant? American - Jail and the fine. Hoping he his left to his own resources to conclude his stay in Japan.

Lock him up no respect

65 years old and still learned nothing

Lock him up for a couple of years in a Japanese jail.

Can you imagine if a foreigner did this to the statue of Liberty. Or the Lincoln memorial. Why should he get off easy?

lol

What an USA 🇺🇲 EMBARRASSMENT!!!

guys, I know this is a crazy idea, but it's actually NOT hard to follow the law and be respectful. Shocker, I know.

Johnny news Korea 📰 & now this dude

He is definitely woke. He believes his feelings matter. But when it comes to others he doesn’t care.

Lock him away please.

Typical suspect.

Fine ❌
Jail ✅

I bet it's the same guy that says there destroying our cities

Holy 🐄 🐮 🐄 cow. He is 65 years old & does something so stupid & destructive while visiting another country. Amazing! He should be punished accordingly. I'm 70 and can not even fathom someone that age doing something so sophomoric.

Way to sustain that rude American stereotype.

If this is how our elders act how do you think they will see us younger Americans

Just stupid.

Just imaging How he would feel if someone went to the 9/11 memorial and carved their family names into it. What is wrong with him?? is it his "Get back at Japan for dec 07"?

Did he want to get arrested so that he could try prison food in Japan?

Fafo

He should be hauled off to a Japanese prison and forced to listen to Yoko Ono sing 24/7..that'll learn him..

They failed with Johnny Somali, so this guy needs to be an example. We can't keep getting away with this.

It never ceases to amaze me that some people don't consider that something might be sacred and that messing with it is disrespectful.

5 years vs 6500 dollars doesnt sound even lol

Keep him!! He's obviously an ignorant Trump supporter and the #1 reason Treasonous Trump was re-elected

for someone who has the capacity to visit japan, 6 grand is nothing 😒

If true, this man has embarrassed his country.

we should not pay for his crime...the usa should not run to his aide when he breaks the laws of another nation

As an American he no longer belongs to us

As an American, I don't want him back.

As myself a American I would say leave him Jail. Also I respect people in Japanese Culture and loved there food.

I bet he's been doing different stuff during all this years until he got caught in foreign land, you still have few more years to change lol.

He needs to be jailed as well as fined.. wonder what made him think that this was ok to do??

Johnny Salami

Trump voter.

bet he was a kamala voter

Disgusting, disrespectful and I find it a hate crime! He is 65 years old and knew better! Going to another country does not mean you can behave despicable, heinous and disrespectful to other’s cultures and their beliefs! Didn’t his mother ever taught him what doesn’t belong to you doesn’t give you the right to touch and ruin other people’s things and properties?!?! He and his family should be banned from ever visiting Japan 🇯🇵!

Uh... 5 years in Japanese prison is not a good thing. You get beaten if you speak to anyone outside of lunch or break times. If you don't speak Japanese, you don't have a translator on deck, and you're not given any means of keeping track of time. You're responsible for keeping count of your time.

I don't see anything wrong. I see something right.

He went to a place and he remembers it.

He writes his name so the place would remember him.

Isn't that fantastic? A place that remembers you were there!

Idiots like him make all of us look bad.

Keep him in prison. We dont want him.

I do not understand this man’s motives. Why would anyone want to deface anything with their initials or graffiti? It just doesn’t make sense.

Auuuuggghhh! What is becoming of our etiquettes and manners? Anyone visiting somewhere should leave as they have found them so that others may enjoy as well and allow Mother Nature to do their artwork!!! Don't be selfish, let others enjoy the beauty. Leave with enjoyment in your heart, mind, and pictures...don't disrespect!

WTF how so "high-school" way to think and act. Bad manners lock him up😢

Yup stupidity has no limits,, lock him up

He should be made to make an apology and repair his own vandalism.

As an American, this is just embarrassing. My sincere apologies to the Japanese people