Japan executed a Chinese national convicted in the brutal 2003 murder of a family of four, marking the government’s first execution of a foreigner in a decade. Wei Wei, a 40-year-old former language ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo. It was Japan’s first execution in years. By Martin Fackler Reporting from ...

A video released on Islamic State-affiliated Twitter accounts shows the apparent beheading of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-year-old Japanese citizen who had been held captive by ISIS forces since last August.

In response to today’s execution in Japan of a man convicted of the murder of nine people, Chiara Sangiorgio, Death Penalty Advisor at Amnesty International, said: “The execution of Takahiro Shiraishi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catholic bishops have expressed sadness after Japan executed a convicted murderer, and demanded the abolition of the death penalty saying, “the violence of the death penalty can never build a peaceful ...

Japan carried out its first execution of 2022 on a man who was convicted of plowing a truck into a crowd in 2008 on Tuesday. Tomohiro Kato killed seven people in the attack, which saw him driving a ...

A staff of Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun distributes their extra edition reporting that doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara was executed, in Tokyo Friday, July 6, 2018. Asahara and six followers ...

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 ...