Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the 'Twitter killer,' was executed in Japan for murdering and dismembering nine people in 2017.

Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo ...

Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of ...

Japan has carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, the man known as the "Twitter ...

Iwao Hakamada in Hamamatsu's Hamakita Ward, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 13, when the Tokyo High Court granted him a retrial (Pool) ...

Hakamada's group was called Hakuto, which means "white rabbit" in Japanese. The prize shut down in 2018 without a winner, leading some of the teams to dissolve or find new purpose.

Police have released video footage of the alleged killer of a 14-year-old boy unboxing a samurai sword and calling the weapon "freaking sexy". Marcus Monzo, 37, denies murdering teenager Daniel ...

The Resilience Spacecraft Likely Crashed on the Moon Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander’s sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...