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World : Japan Executes Death Row Inmate, 1st Since Takaichi Took Office

TOKYO, Aug 21 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday hanged a man convicted of killing five people in an arson attack on a pachinko parlour in the western Japanese city of Osaka in 2009, Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said, making it the first execution under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

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