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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -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. Takahiro ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in nearly three years.

Victims of slanderous comments on social media in Japan find that tangled legal procedures and foreign operators' ignorance of Japanese laws make it a near-Herculean task to track down the ...

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 ...

A court sketch by Masato Yamashita dated September 30, 2020 shows Takahiro Shiraishi (C), on trial - Copyright JIJI PRESS/AFP Masato YAMASHITA A court sketch by ...