The father of a victim of the 2017 serial murders in Zama City, south of Tokyo, has reacted to Shiraishi Takahiro's execution ...

Japan executed a man on Jun. 27 who had killed nine people after contacting them through social media. This marks the country ...

Takahiro Shiraishi chose suicidal victims online and offered to help them die. After he killed them, he dismembered bodies ...

The execution was carried out as calls grow to abolish capital punishment in Japan since the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada last year.

TOKYO -- Japan has executed a man who was convicted of murder after killing and dismembering nine people.

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 the country’s ...

Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

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Asian stock markets advanced broadly at Friday's open, with a key gauge of global equities on track for another record high, ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's ...

Another major city is introducing a four-day week for thousands of workers, with the shorter work week movement continuing to ...

TOKYO—Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area eased in June but remained firmly above the Bank of Japan’s 2% target ...