Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

The chilling mass murder case had gripped the nation for years and raised concerns over the use of social media.

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

Japan yesterday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House on Friday, June 27, Japan's Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki ...