Takami es la primera persona en ser ejecutada en Japón desde junio de 2025, y la primera desde la llegada al cargo de la mandataria nipona, Sanae Takaichi.

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