Japan’s Ministry of Justice executed the death penalty on August 21 for the arson-murderer at a pachinko parlor in Osaka.

Sunao Takami set fire to the crowded pachinko parlor in Osaka by spreading gasoline and throwing a lit match, engulfing the ...

Japan hanged a prisoner on Aug. 21, ending the life of Sunao Takami, a 58-year-old man who killed five people when he set ...

Japan's Justice Ministry said Friday that it executed the same day 58-year-old male death row inmate Sunao Takami, convicted ...

Japan executed Sunao Takami for the 2009 Osaka pachinko parlour arson that killed five people. The hanging has renewed scrutiny of the country's secretive death penalty system and abolition debate.

Japan early Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of killing five people in a fire he ignited at a pachinko parlor in ...