A Seoul court plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday to review a request by special prosecutors to detain former South Korean ...

Viral rumors of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with some airlines cancelling flights from Hong Kong due to plunging passenger ...

Japan's worst criminals face their death inside a highly secretive execution room located inside a nondescript office block.

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

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed, Japan's Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer,” was ...

Japan yesterday 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. Takahiro ...

Japan has executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the Twitter killer, for the 2017 murders of nine people he lured via social media. Shiraishi was convicted of rape, murder, and dismemberment of ...

Japanese authorities on Friday carried out the execution of Takahiro Shiraishi, infamously known as Japan's Twitter killer, who had been convicted ...

Japan carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, infamously known as the “Twitter killer.” He was convicted in 2020 for luring nine vulnerable individuals, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," was sentenced to death in 2020 for the ... Suzuki justified the need for the execution in Japan, noting a recent government survey shows an ...

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