Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Takahiro Shiraishi covers his face while sitting in a police car in Tokyo, Japan, on November 1, 2017. Japan executed Shiraishi on ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. He had targeted ...

TOKYO — Japan executed its first foreigner in 10 years on Thursday, a Chinese man convicted in the 2003 murder and robbery of a family of four. Wei Wei, 40, was hanged Thursday at a detention center ...

TOKYO — A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter ...

"Today the execution of Takahiro Shiraishi was carried out." "This case caused great shock and discomfort to the public, with the loss of nine victims and precious human lives in a span of two months ...

June 27 (UPI) --Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his apartment south of Tokyo in 2017, marking the first person ...

TOKYO — Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Subscribe to read this ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan executed on Friday a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, after contacting them on social media, according to ...