Japan executed Sunao Takami, 58, Friday — the first death penalty in over a year — for setting fire to a gaming parlor in 2009 that killed five people. Convicted in 2011 and rejected as mentally unfit, his execution marks the first under the current administration, highlighting Japan’s rare but ongoing use of capital punishment alongside the U.S. as the only two G7 nations still practicing it. Prisoners often get hours’ notice before execution. This follows the June killing spree of “Twitter killer” Takahiro Shiraishi, whose gruesome crimes were uncovered during a missing persons search — underscoring the grim reality behind Japan’s lethal justice system.
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