Japan says it has executed a man convicted of killing five people after setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009. Friday's ...

Sunao Takami set fire to the crowded pachinko parlor in Osaka by spreading gasoline and throwing a lit match, engulfing the ...

Japan’s Ministry of Justice executed the death penalty on August 21 for the arson-murderer at a pachinko parlor in Osaka.

Japan early Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of killing five people in a fire he ignited at a pachinko parlor in ...

Japan hanged on Friday a man convicted of a 2009 arson attack on an Osaka pachinko parlor that killed five people, with the ...

This is the first time since June 2025 that the country has enacted capital punishment.

For the first time in a long while, a murderer sentenced to death has been executed in Japan. Justice Minister Hiroshi ...

Japan on Friday executed two death row prisoners, including the nation’s first of a condemned inmate sentenced by jurors, officials and media said, as campaigners called for the country to abolish ...