Japan's national police chief says rates of social media-related crimes are "alarming”. Credit: Illustration by Richard Giliberto A month earlier, 28-year-old Asahi Shimbun newspaper delivery ...

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ in first hanging since 2022 The Justice Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Takahiro Shiraishi, who was sentenced to death in 2020 for killing nine people in the ...

Japan has hanged Takahiro Shiraishi, a serial killer who murdered nine people he met on Twitter. Japan's justice minister said Shiraishi's crimes included robbery, rape, murder, and destruction of ...

TOKYO: Japan on Friday (Jun 27) executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Suspected 'Twitter Killer' Takahiro Shiraishi hides his face while being transported to the prosecutor's office from a police station in Tokyo on November 1, 2017. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images But ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the 'Twitter killer', was executed in Japan on Friday. He was sentenced to death in 2020 after murdering and dismembering nine people ...

Japan executes murderer dubbed ‘The Twitter killer’ who ... father of one of Shiraishi’s victims told NHK that he’d rather have seen him “spend his life reflecting on the crimes he ...

A Japanese sicko dubbed the “Twitter Killer” was sentenced to death Tuesday by a Tokyo district court for killing and ... The serial killings were uncovered in October 2017 by authorities ...

Japan's crime rate is relatively low, but it has experienced some recent high-profile killings. In July 2016, a former employee of a home for the disabled allegedly killed 19 residents and injured ...

Japanese 'Twitter killer' who butchered nine 'suicidal' people he met online is sentenced to death but asks for his execution to be delayed so he can get married to an 'an ordinary girl' ...

An alleged killer who is suspected of chopping up victims he met on Twitter has been charged with nine counts of murder. Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, admitted butchering all nine of his victims and ...