The case, which shocked the nation, highlights Japan’s continued use of capital punishment despite international criticism. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was executed ...

A man who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, has been executed in Japan, in the country's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Japan’s most recent execution occurred in July 2022, when a man convicted of killing seven people during a vehicle and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's busy Akihabara district in 2018 was put to death.

Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter ...

The execution by hanging of a man convicted of killing nine people in Japan comes amidst a growing debate over the country's ...

Shiraishi, who committed the crimes in 2017, was executed by hanging - marking Japan's first execution since 2022. Then 27, the serial killer lured young women to his home, where he raped them ...

"It is not appropriate to abolish the death penalty while these violent crimes are still being committed," Suzuki told a press conference. There are currently 105 death row inmates in Japan, he added.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter killer", had shocked the country and triggered debate over how suicide was discussed online. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims - most ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “ Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media.