Japan: First execution under Prime Minister Takaichi condemned

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation Center for Prisoners' Rights (CPR) strongly condemn the latest execution in Japan–the first carried out under Sanae Takaichi, who has been Prime Minister since 21 October 2025. Paris, Tokyo, 21 August 2026. Sunao Takami, a 58-year-old man convicted of killing five people in a pachinko parlor arson in Osaka in 2009,…