TOKYO, Aug 21 — Japan executed today a man convicted of an arson attack on a pachinko parlour in 2009 that killed five people, authorities said.It was Japan’s first hanging...

Tokyo, Aug. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Justice Ministry on Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of murdering five people by setting fire to a "pachinko" pinball parlor in the…

Sunao Takami doused the Osaka venue with petrol and set it on fire in 2009, killing four customers and one employee.

The man doused a pachinko parlour near his home in Osaka with petrol and set it on fire, killing four customers and one employee.

Japan and the US are the only two countries in the G7 that use the death penalty