The three executed Tuesday are Yukio Yamaji, 25, who was convicted of killing two sisters in Osaka in 2005, Chen Detong, a 41-year-old Chinese national who killed three Chinese in Kawasaki, Kanagawa ...

The book, written by Kyodo News reporter Takashi Iketani, chronicles the case of Yukio Yamaji, who was executed last July at the age of 25 for the rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman and her 19 ...

The latest convicts to be executed were Japanese nationals Hiroshi Maeue, 40, and Yukio Yamaji, 25, and 41-year-old Chinese national Chen Detong. Maeue, executed in Osaka, killed three people in 2005 ...

Yukio Yamaji, 25, one of the youngest to be handed the death penalty in postwar Japan, was executed on July 28 at the Osaka Detention Center. In 2000, Yamaji had killed his mother with a metal ...

In an Open Letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Taro Aso, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Prisoner’s Rights (CPR) strongly condemn the ...

Police issued an arrest warrant Monday to a 22-year-old man after he admitted killing two sisters in Osaka. He had been detained since early this month for allegedly trespassing in a building ...