Japan Executes Man for 2009 Pachinko Parlor Arson That Killed Five
Japan executed a man convicted of setting fire to a pachinko parlor in Osaka in 2009, an arson attack that resulted in the deaths of five people. The execution was carried out by hanging.
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Japan executes man who killed five in Pachinko parlour fire
This is the first time since June 2025 that the country has enacted capital punishment.
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Japan executed on Friday a man convicted of an arson attack on a pachinko parlour in 2009 that killed five people, authorities said. It was Japan’s first hanging since Takahiro Shiraishi, the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people, was put to death in June 2025. Sunao Takami, the man executed on Friday, doused a pachinko parlour – a popular game mixing pinball and a slot machine using small steel balls – near his home in Osaka with petrol and set it on fire, killing four...
By Agence France-Presse
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Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries to still use capital punishment, and surveys suggest there is strong support among the Japanese public
By AFP
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The execution — the first under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration — took place on Friday morning, according to media reports.
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