After the death penalty was assigned to a man for killing four people in 2023, Cardinal Isao Cardinal Kikuchi, the archbishop ...

A Japanese court has sentenced to death a man who killed four people in a shooting and stabbing attack in 2023, rejecting the ...

The case, which shocked the nation, highlights Japan’s continued use of capital punishment despite international criticism. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was executed Friday for ...

CNN — Tokyo (CNN) — A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the ...

Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment.

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 ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 15) said that the Centre appeared hesitant to replace hanging with lethal injection ...

Iwao Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Thursday filed a damages lawsuit against the central ...