TOKYO, Aug 30 (News On Japan) –
Graffiti resembling alphabet letters was discovered carved into the East Shrine Gate at Meiji Jingu in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on August 28, prompting a police investigation right into a doable violation of the Cultural Properties Protection Law.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the graffiti was found on a load-bearing part of a column of the East Shrine Gate, which is designated by the nationwide authorities as an Important Cultural Property. The markings, believed to have been incised with a pointy object, measured roughly 5 centimeters in top and 20 centimeters in width, with a number of alphabet-like characters seen in a number of locations.
Police are investigating the circumstances intimately as a suspected offense underneath the Cultural Properties Protection Law.
Source: FNN