Man pleads guilty to killing 9 people in apartment near Tokyo

A Japanese man pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering, dismembering and storing the bodies of nine people in his apartment near Tokyo in a 2017 case involving victims who had expressed suicidal thoughts on Twitter.In the first court hearing of his trial, Takahiro Shiraishi, the 29-year-old defendant, told the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court that the allegations against him were "correct."His defense team, however, taking a different stance from Shiraishi, argued that he killed the victims -- eight women and one man aged 15 to 26 -- with their consent as they had expressed suicid…READ FULL ARTICLE