THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2020 at 18:46 JST
The Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court, the venue for Takahiro Shiraishi's murder trial (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A serial killer was given the death sentence on Dec. 15 for murdering nine people in 2017 at his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo. [Read More]
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