PureArts has removed an Assassin's Creed Shadows figure from sale following backlash over its potentially insensitive design. The broken torii used in the figure is similar to the one-legged gate ...

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A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.

The original figurine features both Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonists Yasuke and Naoe alongside a one-legged torii gate.

Torii Guardian is a top-down tower defense action game where you need to defend the Torii gate to another world from hordes of evil spirits.

Scratches are seen on a Torii gate at Meiji shrine in Tokyo on November 14, 2024. A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a ...

PureArts is "reworking the design" of the Qlectors Assassin’s Creed Shadows Yasuke & Naoe figure after some complained that its use of a one-legged Torii gate was offensive.

PureArts unveiled the statue in September, and to my eye it looked entirely innocuous: Funko-esque takes on Yasuke and Naoe, the co-leads in Assassin's Creed Shadows, posed near a partial torii gate.

People walk past a Torii gate at Meiji shrine in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2024. A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine ...

Scratches are seen on a traditional wooden torii gate at Meiji shrine in Tokyo on November 14, 2024. YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property damage, Tokyo police said.