Tokyo, Aug 21, 2026 (AFP) - Japan executes pachinko parlour arsonist

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Japan hanged on Friday a man convicted of a 2009 arson attack on an Osaka pachinko parlour that killed five people, with the prisoner as usual informed shortly before his execution. It was Japan's first execution since Takahiro Shiraishi, the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people, was put to death in June 2025. Sunao Takami doused the pachinko arcade -- a mechanical game involving thousands of small steel balls -- near his hom......

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