{"id":72655,"date":"2025-06-27T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/27\/japan-executes-twitter-killer-takahiro-shiraishi"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:33:40","slug":"twitter-killer-who-murdered-nine-in-japan-reportedly-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72655","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twitter killer\u2019 who murdered nine in Japan reportedly executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The execution of Takahiro Shiraishi would be the first instance of capital punishment in Japan since 2022<\/p>\n<p>Japan has executed a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer\u201d who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation\u2019s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death\">Takahiro Shiraishi<\/a> was sentenced to death for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/31\/japan-man-arrested-nine-bodies-severed-heads-found-in-flat\">murdering and dismembering nine people<\/a> he met on the social media platform, now called X, in 2017. He was hanged on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the UK and Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\">Samaritans<\/a> can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.ie\">jo@samaritans.ie<\/a>. In the US, you can call or text the <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/a> on 988, chat on <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/chat\/\">988lifeline.org<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisistextline.org\/\">text HOME<\/a> to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a> is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">befrienders.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/27\/japan-executes-twitter-killer-takahiro-shiraishi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The execution of Takahiro Shiraishi would be the first instance of capital punishment in Japan since 2022Japan has executed a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer\u201d who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation\u2019s first enactment of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655\/revisions\/72656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}