{"id":25703,"date":"2020-12-15T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:17:50","slug":"japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25703","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s &#8216;Twitter killer&#8217; sentenced to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing nine people he befriended online after they expressed suicidal thoughts<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has sentenced to death a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer\u201d for the murders in 2017 of nine people whom he befriended online after they had expressed suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted strangling and dismembering his victims, eight of whom were women, over the course of three months. The youngest was 15 and the oldest 26.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing nine people he befriended online after they expressed suicidal thoughtsA court in Japan has sentenced to death a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer\u201d for the murders in 2017 of nine people whom he befriended online a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,236,88,238,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-digital-media","category-japan","category-media","category-social-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions\/25704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}