Japan has executed Sunao Takami, 58, for setting a pachinko parlour ablaze in 2009, killing five people. This marks the first execution in the country in over a year.

• The victims included four customers and one employee.
• The convicted man, Sunao Takami, was sentenced to hang in 2011 after a jury and judges rejected claims of mental illness.
• This execution is the first under the administration of Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi.