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Japan executes man convicted of killing five in pachinko fire

ABC News Australia - Top Stories · 22 August 2026 at 9:16 am

A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlour in Osaka in 2009 has been hanged in Japan's first execution by Sanae Takaichi's government.

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