Japan’s Ministry of Justice executed the death penalty on August 21 for a man convicted of arson and murder at a pachinko parlor in Osaka. This marked the first execution in Japan in 1 year and 2 ...

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 ...

A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009 was hanged Friday in Japan’s first execution by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government as the country faces growing calls ...