TOKYO >> 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.

The execution by hanging of a man convicted of killing nine people in Japan comes amidst a growing debate over the country's ...

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Heartbreaking footage shows four beached whales on Hirasuna Beach in Chiba following an earthquake and Tsunami.

The Kuril Islands and Japan's northern island of Hokkaido were hit by tsunami waves after a magnitude 8.8 undersea earthquake off Russia's eastern coast.

Japan on Friday 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.- Death row ...

X Japan is trademarked in Japan by the nation’s biggest rock band. J-rock would not be what we know it without X Japan, and since Twitter announced its rebranding, members of X Japan have been ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara in 2018.

An 8.7 earthquake off Russia has triggered tsunami warnings for Japan, reviving interest in manga artist Ryo Tatsuki’s 2025 ...

Twitter has launched its Twitter Blue subscription plan in Japan for ¥980 ($7.40) per month on the web and ¥1,380 ($10.42) per month on iOS.

Japan carries out rare execution as 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine people, raped the women and chopped up their bodies in house of horrors is hanged By DAVID AVERRE and AP ...