National / Crime & Legal Dec 15, 2020
Japan's 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death over serial murders
Whether Shiraishi killed the victims with their consent was the major point of contention in the lay judge trial.
National / Crime & Legal Nov 26, 2020
Death penalty sought for Zama killer over nine murders in 2017
Takahiro Shiraishi said Wednesday he expects to receive the death penalty, adding, "I humbly admit my guilt and will accept the punishment."
National / Crime & Legal Nov 25, 2020
Suspect in nine Zama murders says he will not appeal death penalty
The defendant earlier admitted murdering, dismembering and storing the bodies of the people at his apartment southwest of Tokyo.
National / Crime & Legal Nov 4, 2019
Two years after nine bodies found at suspect's home in Zama, still no trial
The first court hearing of a 29-year-old suspect in the alleged robbery-murders of nine people at his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is still a long way off, two years after the victims' dismembered bodies were discovered. The trial for the murders, which shocked the ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 30, 2018
Suspect in Zama serial murders says the nine victims were 'objects of desire'
Takahiro Shiraishi, a 28-year-old man charged in September with murdering and robbing nine people in his apartment last year, said in recent interviews with Jiji Press that he committed the crimes for money and sex. The victims were "objects of desire," Shiraishi said during the ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 10, 2018
Suspect in Zama serial killings indicted over all nine murders
Prosecutors determine that the admitted killer is competent to stand trial.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 22, 2018
Zama man who confessed to killing and dismembering nine people served 10th arrest warrant
Police on Thursday served another arrest warrant on a 27-year-old man over the murder of a high school girl last year — the 10th arrest warrant to be served on the suspect, who has admitted to killing and dismembering nine people at his apartment ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 11, 2017
Suspected serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi served second murder warrant
Suspected serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi has been served a second murder warrant in connection with nine people whose bodies were found dismembered in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture.
National / Crime & Legal Nov 22, 2017
Police on Wednesday referred to prosecutors a 27-year-old man who has admitted to killing nine people, as well as dismembering and storing their body parts in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi was served an arrest warrant Monday for killing one of the nine, Aiko ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 20, 2017
Takahiro Shiraishi, alleged Zama serial killer, receives first murder warrant
The suspect in the serial killings in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is served the first of what is expected to be nine murder warrants in connection with the dismembered bodies found in his apartment last month.
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Nov 18, 2017
Zama murders prompt awareness of youth issues
by Mark Schreiber
Readers who may be contemplating homicide should be aware that concealing evidence of your crime — referred to in the language of jurisprudence as corpus delicti — is next to impossible. Even before the emergence of DNA testing and other forensic techniques, killers determined to ...
National / Social Issues Nov 11, 2017
Grisly Zama murders prompt government brainstorming over new suicide-prevention measures
Japan looks for ways to censor social media postings and engage depressed youths after the serial killings in Zama shine a light on its suicide problem.