TOKYO - Japan on Friday hanged a man convicted of killing five people in an arson attack on a pachinko parlor in the western Japanese city of Osaka in 2009, the justice minister said, making it the first execution under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
Sunao Takami, 58, was the first person to be executed in Japan since June 2025.
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