THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2020 at 18:46 JST
People line up in front of the Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch for a chance to win a lottery for a seat to hear the verdict read in the case of Takahiro Shiraishi on Dec. 15. (Azusa Kato)
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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