Japan executes man convicted of killing five in 2009 Osaka pachinko parlor arson
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- South China Morning Postseen 21 Aug, 14:38description edited
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Japan executed on Friday 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 since Takahiro Shiraishi, the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people, was put to death in June 2025. Sunao Takami, the man executed on Friday, doused a pachinko parlour – a popular game mixing pinball and a slot machine using small steel balls – near his home in Osaka with petrol and set it on fire, killing four...Japan executed on Friday a man convicted of an arson attack on a pachinko parlour in 2009 that killed five people, with the prisoner as usual informed shortly before his execution. It was Japan’s first hanging since Takahiro Shiraishi, the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people, was put to death in June 2025. Sunao Takami, the man executed on Friday, doused a pachinko parlour – a popular game mixing pinball and a slot machine using small steel balls – near his home in Osaka...
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13 reports- Japan Times01:28first to report
The execution — the first under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration — took place on Friday morning.
- South China Morning Post02:38edited after publishing
Japan executed on Friday a man convicted of an arson attack on a pachinko parlour in 2009 that killed five people, with the prisoner as usual informed shortly before his execution. It was Japan’s first hanging since Takahiro Shiraishi, the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people, was put to death in June 2025. Sunao Takami, the man executed on Friday, doused a pachinko parlour – a popular game mixing pinball and a slot machine using small steel balls – near his home in Osaka...
- Channel News Asia02:42
The man doused a pachinko parlour near his home in Osaka with petrol and set it on fire, killing four customers and one employee.
- BBC News World02:49
This is the first time since June 2025 that the country has enacted capital punishment.
- RMF24 (Poland)04:33
Egzekucja w Japonii. Stracono mężczyznę skazanego za podpalenie salonu gier
- Le Figaro (France)05:13
Il s’agit de la première exécution au Japon depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de la première ministre Sanae Takaichi en octobre dernier. La précédente, celle de Takahiro Shiraishi, le «tueur de Twitter», qui avait assassiné et démembré neuf personnes, remontait à juin 2025.
- Index.hr (Croatia)06:00
JAPAN je izvršio prvu smrtnu kaznu nakon više od godinu dana. Pogubljen je Sunao Takami, osuđen za ubojstvo petero ljudi u podmetnutom požaru u pachinko salonu 2009. godine.
- independent.co.uk08:00
Japan and the US are the only two countries in the G7 that use the death penalty
- Telegram.hr (Croatia)09:47
Japan primjenjuje smrtnu kaznu, iako se pogubljenja provode rijetko
- tportal (Croatia)10:02
Japan je u petak pogubio 58-godišnjeg muškarca osuđenog na smrt zbog podmetanja požara u igraonici s automatima u Osaki 2009. godine, u kojem je poginulo petero ljudi, objavio je ministar pravosuđa Horishi Hiraguchi
- Google News - Top Stories10:44
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- Anadolu Agency (AA)11:12
This is 1st capital punishment under Takaichi administration
- ABC News (Australia)23:16
A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlour in Osaka in 2009 has been hanged in Japan's first execution by Sanae Takaichi's government.